When I talked about how Context Matters When Discussing Frameworks I intentionally left out naming any picks because the point of that article wasn’t to start a framework debate (neither is this one, but at least it will get isolated in here). In this post, I’ll cover my choice of frameworks.

Note : Spigot has been renamed to DataValve. (Edit : I renamed this post so it doesn’t seem like Spigot is just for Seam, Spigot can be used with different frameworks or without any at all. However, I wrote this post since Spigot is so familiar to the Seam EntityQuery that it should be easy […]

Note : Spigot has been renamed to DataValve and is hosted over on FlutterCode.com. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything new as I’ve been busy with a new Open Source software project called Spigot. It’s a java library that sits between your application code and your data sources (Hibernate, JPA, JDBC or any […]

I’m looking at starting a new project and once again find myself choosing between frameworks. Having spent some time evaluating different ones I wrote up some notes to share and get some feedback that might alter my thoughts or opinions. Here’s the criteria I’m using to choose a framework in no particular order.

In the fifth part of this four part series, I decided to give a non-conversational framework a try and implemented the same application with Wicket which is a semi-stateless framework. (update : If you have already read the previous version only chapter 5 is new and has the Wicket example and final comparison.) Enjoy, HTML […]