Open Source Java Web Development Frameworks

ZK is an open-source Java framework for building modern web and mobile applications. It enables developers to create rich, interactive UIs using only Java — no JavaScript required. With 200+ Ajax-powered components, event-driven architecture, and support for popular technologies like Spring, Java EE, and JSP/JSF, ZK makes it simple to deliver powerful and user-friendly web applications.

Platform for creating workflow based systems like DMS, CMS or CRM. It use Grails as web framework, Bootstrap as UI, Activiti as process engine.

IRSA is a toolkit for Information Retrieval Service Assessment. It builds upon the Grails Web Framework and is developed at GESIS. It implements two main functionalities: (1) A number of showcases that show the implemented services like a so-called Search Term Recommender and different science-model based ranking mechanisms and (2) an IR assessment module that let's one do an interactive evaluation of the retrieval services. All implemented services are available via well-documented RESTful API. This toolkit is distributed under an Apache License 2.0.

Web application providing analysis of biomedical relationships. Built using the Grails web application framework (http://grails.org/) with MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/) as a back-end datastore and utilizing R (http://www.r-project.org/) for statistical analysis. Developed by the Dana Farber Cancer Institute (http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/) and Entagen (http://www.entagen.com).