Pragmatic Web

Pragmatic Web is a Java Eclipse project for rapid development of situational/utility Java Web applications where application logic is relatively simple, and cost and speed of development are critical.

It contains:

• JXP servlet for rendering of scripted JSP pages (JXP's)
• Java servlet for rendering of scripted Java files using JANINO.
• Winstone servlet container for testing and debugging.
• SACK - simple AJAX library. See this tutorial for more info.
• Folder tree script from dhtmlgoodies.com.
• DHTML Suite script from dhtmlgoodies.com

Download the project, unzip, import into Eclipse workspace, rename. Add servlets and supporting classes to the src folder, JXP's, scripted java, libraries, and other web content to WebContent folder.

To test/debug run WebAppLauncher class - it starts Winstone with web root mapped to WebContent directory.

The project is configured to output compiled sources to WebContent/WEB-INF/classes. Therefore you don't need to build a web application - it is always in sync. To deploy just package WebContent project into a WAR file or deploy as loose files. You can consider using WAR Launcher to convert the WAR file into executable JAR with an option of deploying as a Windows service.

• Hammurapi Group files - LGPL.
• Included products - different open source licenses, see products' web sites for licensing details.