beetRoot: Yet Another Web Framework?

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 07:26:01 +0000

News: beetRoot 3.2.0 was released on December 8, 2025.

Over the years, I have struggled with various Java web development frameworks and they all have their weaknesses and strengths.

A few years ago, I evaluated around 10 of these frameworks for a project for a Swedish company. Nothing really impressed me at the time.

It was only later that SpringBoot came along, which seemed to fulfill all the requirements and there was actually very little to criticize about it. Then came microservices such as Quarkus or Micronaut , which are often compiled into native code for small web service applications, but which can then rarely be embedded in a more mature architecture.

Building JavaFX with Gradle

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 11:32:24 +0000

Usually Maven is my build tool of choice and for Java front-ends I sometimes still build a front-end application using ANT, Swing with Oracle’s JDK 8u202 and JDK 8’s Java Packager, but don’t tell anyone….

Over time, as I wanted to move forward with some more lightweight front-ends, I started building JavaFX applications.

Of course, I don’t want to lock customers into JDK maintenance contracts; for backend software and servers, where the customer usually has their own runtime architecture, that’s easy, but for GUIs, I generally don’t want to ship a full JDK anymore, I want to use modular Java, ship a JDK of my choice, and provide a proper build system for it all. So that’s it, I use the following components and software:

Michael Gasche on foojay.io - Friends of OpenJDK

beetRoot: Yet Another Web Framework?

Building JavaFX with Gradle