Java web-app layer kick-start

A library which provides an abstraction layer for a web application, allowing a developer to focus on the service-specific domain. Based in Java SE, this allows a developer to take elements from the EE stack, without the configuration mess of Spring, and without a lot of the magic from a platform like grails (findByField1AndField2 anyone?).

Very simple to drop in, configure and start building your logic. Combines a variety of Java projects, a "convention over configuration" metaphor, and a few base and utility classes to allow for:

• Unit testing with junit and Hamcrest.
• Integration testing via cactus.
• MVC code structure.
• Introspection based request mapping (convention over configuration).
• Logging via slf4j / log4j.
• SiteMesh for page templates.
• Hibernate for Data Model / persistence.
• Several transaction models.
• Resource oriented (as in REST) API development.
• Simple mail sending (using javamail)
• ReCaptcha support, entity BREAD (aka CRUD).
• Abstraction from incoming content type (supports JSON, XML, form post, url encoded).
• Combines libs: Hibernate, Guice, Tomcat Taglibs, Jackson, ReCaptcha, slf4j/log4j.
• For testing: junit, hamcrest, h2, cactus, htmlunit.
• *Content negotiation.

An amalgam of these features can be taken in pieces or together.