OpenXava is a productive way for creating AJAX Enterprise Applications with Java. Indeed, it's faster developing with OpenXava than with Ruby On Rails, Spring MVC, or any other MVC framework. This is because in OpenXava you only have to write the Model. The Controllers are reused, and the View are generated automatically.

With OpenXava you put your JPA classes and, in exchange,  you will obtain a full featured application ready for production, and without code generation. See it vividly at Teacher demo.

OpenXava has been created by Java developers (who need developing Java Enterprise applications in a productive way)  for their own use; hence it's powerful, extensible and enjoyable by a Java expert. In the other hand OpenXava allows to a new Java developer to start rapidly to be productive, therefore is a pleasant experience for beginners too.

The better way to learn about OpenXava is downloading it, and following the tutorial.
Don't hesitate to ask in the the community forum any question you have.

Features
  • Mature open source project: 5 years, more than 120,000 downloads, 40 contributors, thousands of forum messages, etc.
  • Has been used during years to develop enterprise applications.
  • High productivity for developing business applications.
  • Short learning curve and easy to use.
  • Flexible enough to create sophisticated applications.
  • It's possible to insert your own functionality in every place.
  • No code generation: touch your code try your application in a few seconds.
  • Based in the concept of business component.
  • Although the User Interface is automatically generated (on fly) a fine tunning front-end arrangement is allowed.
  • Full AJAX support: no page reloading is done.
  • Adapted to work with legacy database schemas.
  • Supports any application server (Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, etc).
  • Supports JSR-168: All OpenXava modules are standard portlets too.
  • Persistence engine: EJB3 JPA, Hibernate or EJB2 CMP. You choose.
  • It's tested with the portals: JetSpeed 2, WebSphere Portal, Liferay and Stringbeans.
  • Easy integration of reports made with JasperReports.
  • Licensed under LGPL. You can develop comercial application using OpenXava.
  • Exhaustive documentation in English, French, Russian, Chinese and Spanish.
  • All labels and messages are in English, Spanish, Chinese, German, Polish, Indonesian, French, Italian, Serbian,  Swedish and Catalan, with more coming.

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News

DRAFT 3 of OpenXava book available

2010-8-24 - Buy the book

The DRAFT 3 of the Learn OpenXava by examples book is available with two new chapters and more than 270 pages.

Version 4m5 released

2010-7-28 - Download - Changes

In this milestone the user can change page row count in list and collections, page navigation has a new look, it's possible to see detail and list at the same time, a new help link at module level, etc. Moreover it has around 40 new features and fixes over 4m4. Though a milestone it's production ready.

OpenXava 5 poll
What main feature do you want for OpenXava 5?

a. FLEX for user interface
b. JavaFX for user interface
c. Groovy for the model
d. Ruby for the model
e. Build-in navigation and security (no portal needed)
f. Interactive programming