Development Tools

The MBH Log Initialization Servlet is a very handy servlet for initializing logging facilities in your application. By configuring this servlet to 'load-on-startup' first, all your servlets and tag libraries within the web.xml can rely on this initialization. Using this servlet is as simple as configuring it in your web.xml so that it knows where to find your log4j intialization properties file.

NetRelay is an installable application server with integrated publishing framework for rapid development of dynamic webapplications. Database independent. Real logic / presentation � separation. Integrated template editor. Xml-based scriptlanguage with lots predefined tags for different functions. Java-developers can add own tags with own logic in very short time. Online-database-editor creates and modifies database-tables and java mapper classes. Extensive tutorials for template- and tag-creation in english and german.

ServletManager is an XML-based servlet controller package (in the model/view/controller paradigm) that allows a Web application programmer to declare the entire application's flow, application state rules, exception handling, authorization rules, model code (business logic) per state, and view code (Java server pages (JSPs) per state in an XML-based state table.

This is a "tag" library to colorize the java code in your JSP page. It's also easy to add other languages in this tag library.

SmartMode consists of four rapid JSP development tools that facilitate, through a series of authoritative XML documents, the building and managing of Java Beans (or EJBs) and corresponding database schema (object-relational mapping), sitemap and site layout, multi-screen data entry wizards, and dynamically generated lists of data. The tools cut development time by 80% by automating many of the repetitive tasks most enterprise developers face. Developers benefit from SmartMode's open, standards-based approach which preserves and enhances investments in existing tools, training, and infrastructure. SmartMode supports the following Standards: XML, Java XML Parser APIs, J2EE, J2SE, the WAR file format, CSS, HTML 3.2+, JSP 1.1+, SMTP, JavaMail, and Servlet 2.2+.

BRL is a language designed for server-side WWW-based applications, particularly database applications. It is based on Scheme, which makes the syntax extremely simple yet powerful. This implementation is a Java Servlet using the Kawa Scheme compiler.

Tapestry is a comprehensive component-based web application framework. It works with Servlet API 2.1 and JDK 1.2 or above. It simplifies web application development by organizing an application into pages of components. The real promise of Tapestry is that it presents a compelling reason to execute projects in a Java environment. In Primix's current environment, when a project may be executed using Microsoft ASP or JavaServer Pages (under NT), the momentum is still to work with ASP, because JavaServer Pages is insufficiently distinguished from ASP, and more developers are familiar with NT than Java. Tapestry is markedly distinguished from, and superior to, both ASP and JavaServer Pages.

WebMacro is an HTML template engine and back end servlet development framework. WebMacro simplifies servlet development by separating programming work from page design: Page designers create HTML templates with WebMacro's powerful script language. Programmers work in clean Java code, free of HTML and other presentational clutter.

zJSP is an experimental translator from JavaServer Pages (jsp's) to Java. It is designed to be used in conjunction with Sun's Java Servlet Developers Kit (JSDK), version 2.0. It should work with any Java Servlet environment compatible with JSDK servlets. It has been tested against Apache 1.3, Apache JServ 0.9.11, and Sun JSDK 2.0.

Expresso is the most popular, powerful, enterprise-strength J2EE architectural framework. Expresso extends Struts for developing database-driven web applications and builds on many other open source projects. Expresso is designed to shorten time-to-delivery of Web-based applications by providing a library of extensible Java Server components for providing services to web-based applications so the developer can concentrate on application logic. Expresso has capabilities for security, robust object-relational mapping, background job handling and scheduling, self-tests, logging integration, automated table manipulation, database connection pooling, email connectivity, event notification, error handling, caching, internationalization, XML automation, testing, registration objects, configuration management, workflow, automatic database maintenance and JSP tag library etc.

THis is a much fancier Snoop example than the factory default. It also shows session and other information. Also shows HTML Generation of Tables with a fancy magic method at the beginning.