AppFuse - A Fast Start to a Consistent Java Project

Posted on October 11, 2006
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I came across AppFuse the other day when a friend said he were using it as their development framework. I thought he said App View, but the name is AppFuse.

App Fuse is described as “A robust starter web application to ease Java webapp development”

The framework or whatever you want to call it comes with some great functionality for starting up an application development.

AppFuse comes out of the box with features that many applications need, including:

Authentication and authorization

User management

Remember Me (which saves your login information so you don’t have to log in every time)

Password reminder

Signup and registration

SSL switching

E-mail

URL rewriting

Skinability

Page decoration

Templated layout

File upload

This out-of-the-box functionality is one of the main things that separate AppFuse from the other CRUD generation frameworks (from create, retrieve, update and delete),
including Ruby on Rails, Trails, and Grails. The aforementioned
frameworks, as well as AppFuse, allow you to generate master/detail
pages from database tables or existing model objects.

I would love to see someone build a Ruby on Rails version of this. I have done some of it, using the plugins and engines, but it looks like a great idea to turn this into a project.

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