HTML/HTML5 website creating using Jodd(java) framework

Question

I've been reading about Jodd(java) framework and it looks interesting to me. But I see that it seems to be jsp/servlet based. Can you develop strictly html/html5 dynamic website without jsps with it?

Answer 1

Absolutely. As you can see, in Jodd Madvoc you have this concept of Result : each (java) action returns it. Results are the one that defines how you are going to render the page. By default, there are JSP results, as this is a standard, right; but nothing stops you to simply have a i.e. Freemarker result or to use any other template engine. People are doing this often. Moreover, Results are made to be configured. See: http://jodd.org/doc/madvoc/results.html

Result does not need only to return HTML content. There is a JsonResult for example, or RawResult that can return a JSON or any string.

If you want REST-ish interface that only results with JSONs, you can do that as well, checkout: http://jodd.org/doc/madvoc/rest.html

Madvoc should be configurable enough to fit your needs. Just don't think of it as a 'solution-in-a-box', but a real framework, that you need to dig just a little, but you will find what you need :)

Answer 2

You can develop strictly html/html5 dynamic Websites without JSPs for sure, there are many ways to do it, but in my personal opinion, I believe that you can use AngularJS for your front-end development (HTML5/CSS3). This framework will allow you to implement all your client side without minor issues. It is based on HTML5, so no JSP files will be required. If you are used to MVC or MVVM, well this framework will allow you to work with any of these two approaches.

Dynamic Web Application? Need to show data from a database or store records? No problem, Angular supports AJAX calls to REST Web Services which you can implement with the programming language you feel more comfortable. If it is Java, then you can go for some REST Web Services using Jersey.

Hope this information is useful for you.

Happy coding.