This project compares a number of web application frameworks by implementing a "benchmark application" in each of them. The benchmark application is a simple contact manager with some core features that are used in most real-world webapps.

New frameworks can be explored and advertised by contributing an implementation of WebOfContacts to this project. Currently, JSF, Spring MVC, Struts 1, Struts 2, GWT, and Ruby on Rails are covered. (There is a bias towards Java.)

The main documentation is still at http://oranda.com/webapp/

Examples of live implementations:

JSF/Seam: http://oranda.vm.bytemark.co.uk:8080/WebOfContactsJSFSeam

Ruby on Rails: http://oranda.vm.bytemark.co.uk:3000/login

Currently seeking contributors

All contributed webapps are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Source is currently available as Eclipse projects.