I guess I am looking for hints and info about something that it is ‘bigger’ than a web app framework like JSF and the like. Sort of like Rails for Java web apps… or I could be completely off-base.
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I guess I am looking for hints and info about something that it is ‘bigger’ than a web app framework like JSF and the like. Sort of like Rails for Java web apps… or I could be completely off-base.
I’m not exactly sure what you’re looking for but if is a “Rails for Java web apps” the closest thing is Grails. Furthermore there is Spring Roo (also from SpringSource, as is Grails) and Seam.
What these frameworks have in common is that they provide a complete stack for building Java based web applications together with productivity tooling (and a productivity language in the case of Grails as most Groovy developers would say).
Major differences are: