Java frameworks like J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, and the basic Java servlets model made it relatively easy to create strong web applications. The technology thrived until JavaScript and Node.js appeared.

All the existing Java-based web frameworks simply build on top of the Servlet and JSP API. Essentially, there’s nothing you can do with Spring MVC or JSF that you can’t do on your own with the Servlet ...

Datamill, an open source framework that leverages Java 8 and lambdas, is bringing functional programming to Java-based web development. Positioned as an alternative to the popular Spring Framework ...

Together, these APIs created a solid foundation upon which various web development frameworks could be built. From Vaadin to Spring MVC, many powerful Java-based web UI frameworks were developed ...

Spring Framework 5.0, featuring a new reactive web framework, was released on September 28, 2017. With this release, Spring 5.0 has its entire codebase based on Java 8 source code level. Spring 5.0 is ...