Open Source JavaScript Web Development Frameworks

ZK is an open-source Java framework for building modern web and mobile applications. It enables developers to create rich, interactive UIs using only Java — no JavaScript required. With 200+ Ajax-powered components, event-driven architecture, and support for popular technologies like Spring, Java EE, and JSP/JSF, ZK makes it simple to deliver powerful and user-friendly web applications.

The Struts/SourceForge site hosts sample applications and related components based on the Apache Struts Web application framework. Disclaimer: This site is not affiliated with the Apache Software Foundation.

A MVC oriented client-server web framework written in C and JavaScript for Apache HTTP servers. The server executes models and the built-in template engine creates the view. The client-side is a JS API, and makes communication with the server easy.

The castafiore J2EE Platform consists of an advanced Web Framework built upon JQuery and a persistence framework built upon hibernate. All together glued with spring 3. We also provide some exciting web tools like a DMS and a Portal designer

We have abandonned work on this framework in favor of using JSF. Though JSF is not perfect, it is close enough to Chrysalis for our purpose, and has the advantage of being a standard with major industry support.

Echo2 is the next-generation of the Echo Web Framework, a platform for developing web-based applications that approach the capabilities of rich clients. http://www.nextapp.com/platform/echo2/echo/ It is based on AJAX technology. This version includes com

Facets is a web application framework that leverages a simple MVC architecture for the server side and a feature-packed Javascript component model for the client. The two pieces are designed to be seemlessly integrated for very dynamic AJAX-style apps.

Java Single Page Application Framework. Using POJO/JavaScript/WebSocket/HTML. Without any scripting - only pure Java classes. Simply and easy to learn, use and extend.

AJAX Enterprise Web Development framework. Simplified Service Oriented architecture following IOC and REST paradigms. Allowing in-program development allowing people to program in scripting languages manipulating Java APIs using KISS Class design.

Hijax is a web framework supporting AJAX-based development. It links Javascript client events to server code (Java), and allows modifying the page content from the server event handlers, even for standard HTML files (no serverside tags needed).

ItsNat is a Component based AJAX Java Web Application Framework.No XML programming,no mixed view/code,no custom JavaScript.Only pure HTML,pure Java and server centric Swing-like programming with W3C standards where "The Browser is The Server"

JET - Java Enterprise Turbine is a web framework which offers an easy to use web development environment. The focus is on building and reusing forms instead of whole pages like JSP. JET uses "Freemarker templates" to generate html pages.

I am a web framework for developers to build web-solutions on. Blessed with APIs and bridges to services, SOA, RIA, DB/Server independent; I am gonna make solution development a child's play. Know more at http://blog.myjerry.org

Jigs for Java is a full-stack, web application framework (much like Ruby on Rails) built on Domain-Driven Design, Presentation Model, Model-View-Controller (MMVC more precisely), O/R Mapping, and AJAX. It utilizes familiar, existing, stable technologies.

The PSWF (Paul Smits Web Framework) is a experimental web framework project.

Parsec provides a JSP 1.2 tag library and an API for developing rich web applications. MVC is supported with the Page Controller pattern, where requests go to JSPs; no XML config files. Client-side form validation supported by JavaScript code generation.

Radix is a RAD framework for creating native XML web applications. Complete web applications can be created without programming knowledge using XML, XSLT, XPath and related technologies. Radix can be extended using Java, JavaScript, Python, and Tcl.

Rydia is a web-based, AJAX frontend to the JSurveyLib survey engine. It provides an easy way to configure surveys / questionnaires and display them on a website. Rydia will work with any web framework because it integrates like an AJAX widget.

The Sitast(Simple Tapestry Stack) library project provides stack and ajax behaviour for the Tapestry java web application framework.

JavAjax is now at 1.4 beta version, for downloads and documentation please visit http://www.javajax.org

Utoopia is a framework that deploys complete web enabled applications, configuring the description of the application entities and the business rules.

Well Written Web Development Framework Is a set of advanced facilities and utils, written having in mind complex portals.

The „wicket components“ project is a component library for the apache wicket web-framework. Referring to classic component libraries for desktop applications ( like Microsoft Foundation Classes, QT Library or wxWindows) the wicket components provide graphical user interface components for wicket web-applications. Based upon this library it'll be easy to create complex user interfaces for data processing applications and it is a perfect start to migrate old desktop applications to modern web-applications. The project is getting bigger and bigger. Your help is greatly appreciated.

WIN-Servlet is a web application framework that supports a windows-like program structure. A browser has its own session-context and window-stack. Supports: component-based dialogs (FORM), input validation, standard HTML/JavaScript pages, servlet API 2.2

WebChunks is an experiment to create a simple and effective java web framework. The basic idea of WebChunks is hide processing of user interaction with the interface and sending/receiving of http-requests, providing instead a convenient mechanism of events. This as well as automatic monitoring of changes in the interface and flexible components system allow the developer to concentrate on solving the basic task and forget about placing and updating the related elements on the page.