Colorado Springs Open Source Meetup (JCatapult)

Tonight’s open source meetup discussed the Apache Commons Project that included a logging demo (i.e. Commons Logging, Log4j, etc.). This talk was given by Gary Hessler.

The meeting ended with a talk by Brian Pontarelli who is the founder of Inversoft. Brian has been pretty much the sole developer behind JCatapult which is what his talk was about. JCatapult is a web application framework, written in Java, that is built upon a slew of other technologies such as:

• Struts 2
• Hibernate
• SiteMesh
• XWork
• JSP/JSTL
• FreeMarker
• Joda Time
• JPA
• Google Guice
• FCK
• ANT

Actually, I would go a step further to say that JCatapult is higher level web application framework that sits on top of Struts, Hibernate, etc. to give you more capabilties out of the box like generating scaffolding for forms, CRUD views, unit tests, simple components such as login and security, and database management (supports database migrations like what you would find in a Ruby on Rails setup).

Check it out, if you like. The demo was interesting but I’m quite happy sticking with Ruby on Rails for now.

Tags: Colorado Springs Open Source Software Group

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