AppFuse

My friend Aaron ran across a new tool recently that promises to make the creation of new web applications extremely easy. The tool is named AppFuse, and it essentially creates a new web application from scratch. While there are other tools that do this, AppFuse seems to be on a whole other level in that in builds in a bunch of frameworks that you might need (including front-end security and Spring persistence). A list of some of the features from the article:

• Authentication and authorization
• User management
• Remember Me (which saves your login information so you don't have to log in every time)
• Password reminder
• Signup and registration
• SSL switching
• E-mail
• URL rewriting
• Skinability
• Page decoration
• Templated layout
• File upload

The article, by the main developer:

Seven simple reasons to use AppFuse

The article also touches on a lot of technologies that I wasn't familiar with, like Maven, that look interesting.

AppFuse project page