Open Source Java Frameworks: GUI, Web, Web Services, and Persistence

by Tom Welsh

This is the fourth in a series of Executive Updates in which I analyze the results of a recent Cutter Consortium survey on the subject of open source Java frameworks (OSJFs). Here in Part IV, I discuss the survey's findings for GUI, the Web, Web services, and persistence. The remaining three topics -- middleware, development/testing, and comprehensive -- will be covered in the next Update, the last part of this series, in which I shall also take a quick look at some non-Java frameworks for the sake of comparison.