Expresso Framework

Web Application Development (AD) Framework designed to shorten time-to-delivery of Web-based, business transactional applications. An open standards based library of extensible Java Server components for providing services to Web-based applications so the developer can concentrate on application logic.

Expresso is an application development (AD) framework with extensible Java components for developing database-driven Web applications based on open standards. Expresso integrates with Struts which is a MVC light weight framework emphasizing presentation and application configuration, and bringing a tag library to Expresso; whereas Expresso adds capabilities for database-stored security, object-relational mapping, background job handling and scheduling, self-tests, log4j logging integration, automated table manipulation, database connection pooling, E-Mail connectivity, event notification, caching, internationalization, XML automation, testing, registration objects, configuration management, automatic database maintenance and JSP tag library, etc.

Use Expresso in both non EJB/J2EE sites, as well as scale upwards using J2EE technology.