The open source OpenXava project, which recently announced its 4.8 release, is filling a niche among enterprise developers charged with building Web apps fast. Built in Java, the OpenXava framework is ...

Enterprise Web App Patterns (source: Microsoft). Incremental Refactoring with the Strangler Fig Pattern: The strangler fig pattern enables a gradual migration from monolithic structures to modular ...

If you have Maven and Tomcat installed, use a Maven project object model (POM) to describe the structure of your web application ... If you need a POM-based Java web application to deploy to Tomcat ...

The generated application also contained a web.xml file, which isn’t needed in modern Java web apps, but Maven generated a simple one for backwards compatibility. The Maven war plugin is needed ...