SKWeb

SKWeb is a java web framework that is designed to be simple and easy to maintain, with HTML based templates and a complete view and controller separation.

Features

• Complete separation between view (a template and associated view class), data (a model class) and business logic (a controller class).
• Templates which easy to write, maintain and can be edited with a standard HTML editor
• There is no need to learn any new HTML like tags - only a couple of attributes
• The ability to create a master template (called an outer view), in order to have a consistent header and footer across different pages
• Easy to replicate HTML elements for each item in a list
• Easy to show/hide sections of HTML based on the model data that is produced
• External storage for the HTML templates, which allows them to be updated in realtime.
• The ability to write controllers which are as powerful as standard servlets.
• Fast rendering process: Get controller for URL, execute controller, optionally generate a view (build view data structure, parse template, render HTML)
• Views are stateless. Therefore there is no requirement for data to be persisted between page requests.
• Map multiple search engine frindly URLs to a single controller.
• Only a single dependency: A servlet container.
• Optionally integrates with Spring.
• Java based configuration.

SKWeb has been taken offline. If you wish to get a copy, contact the developer.

Version 2

A second version is in progress with a number of improvements, including:

• Google Guice integration, better Spring integration and support for other/custom containers.
• Convenient GET/POST parameter parsing and eaiser URL generation
• A restructure of the HTML view generation process. View classes are no longer required. All data is automatically extracted and converted from model classes and merged to the HTML template file.