JWarp - THE Development Library

General

The JWarp application and development framework was originally developed by ORCA Systems Inc., Switzerland. The framework is now licenced under the GNU general public licence (GPL). Framework development will also be supported by ORCA Systems in the future, so if you like to join our team, please let us know!

Licencing

The framework is licenced under the GNU general public licence (GPL).

Target Audience

As the developers of JWarp write JAVA software, JWarp is for JAVA developers. The architectural target is to separate software in modules that can be recombined and reused throughout several applications. Furthermore, the main part of the application's configuration should be in XML, so recompilation should be rare. As we develop enterprise applications the issue security was also taken into account.

Why Use JWarp?

Because we use it! Most parts of the JWarp library are used in various applications that we developed for different customers. Therefore most of the code here is also running under heavy load and complicated production environments. Additionally, since we are using JWarp, encountered bugs will automatically be removed.

JWarp Overview

JWarp consists of several modules that can be used almost independently from each other:

Core Module: The core module contains a context/service implementation, the configuration samples and all the basic service implementation.
Persistence Module: The persistence module is an XML-configured persistence mapping tool that has an implementation for mapping JAVA objects to relational databases. An XML mapping driver is planned for a future release. Some services of the core implementation will, in fact, be based on this module. But this module is completely independent from any other module. Besides the ConfigurationException class there is no need for using JWarp core libraries when you want to use this framework.
Flow Module: The flow module should extend the persistence engine with a work flow engine, so that you can work with forms instead of working with the http's request/response pattern. This module is currently under development.
Samples Module: This module should contain samples for using all modules. Currently, there are only a few samples available but more will follow. The current samples give you a short but efficient example of a minimal JWarp configuration. The samples furthermore provide the testing code for the application configuration mechanism, since by testing them, we simultaneously test unusual cases such as loading empty contexts, missing security implementations, invalid class references and others.