Open Source Low-Code Development Platform to accelerate software development.
Write just the domain classes in plain Java. Get a web application ready for production.
Low-Code & Low-Cost
OpenXava is open source (LGPL) so you can use it for free, even for creating commercial applications. We have an enterprise edition of OpenXava called XavaPro with some enterprise-grade features, but with a very reasonable pricing compared with other low-code platforms. Look at the pricing.
Low-Code since 2005
250,000 downloads. Thousands of threads in the public forums. Hundreds of professionals in LinkedIn with OpenXava experience. Hundreds of applications developed. Look at success stories.
Standards to protect your investment
The code of an OpenXava application is a subset of the code for a Java EE or a Spring application, the most used enterprise development platforms nowadays. Therefore you get access to millions of Java developers ready to develop with OpenXava. Moreover, you can migrate to Java EE or Spring your OpenXava application in any moment (or vice versa). OpenXava uses the next Java standards: JSR-338, JSR-317, JSR-303, JSR-330, JSR-220, JSR-153, JSR-168 and JSR-286.
High productivity
You only write the code for your data structure and business logic. You do not write HTML, JavaScript, CSS, SQL, etc. The user interface and the database logic are automatically provided.
Short learning curve
Learning how to write simple Java classes is enough to write complete applications. The OpenXava bundle is prepared for a rapid startup.
Full-featured applications
AJAX user interface with no page reloading. List mode with paging, ordering, filtering, adding / removing / moving columns, PDF reports, export to Excel, cards format, charts, etc. Detail mode with tabs, frames, dialogs, editors for references and collections, responsive layout, etc.
Mobile user interface
In addition to the classic web user interface for desktop you can get a mobile user interface for your application from the same code.
Use your favorite platform
Browsers: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Databases: Any supported by Hibernate, that is Oracle, DB2, AS/400, Informix, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server and practically all relational databases. Operating systems: Any with Java 8 (or better) support, that is Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, AS/400, z/OS, etc. Application servers: Any with support for Servlets 3.0 (or better), including Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, Glassfish, WebLogic, etc. Enterprise portals: Any with JSR-168 or JSR-286 support including WebSphere Portal and Liferay.
Multilingual
The standard labels and messages included in OpenXava are in English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Catalan, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Serbian and Swedish. Moreover, it's pretty easy to add a new language.
Exhaustive documentation
Complete Reference Guide in English, French, Russian, Chinese and Spanish. Free online course in English and Spanish where an invoicing application is developed from scratch. Book in English and Spanish available from Amazon. Hundreds of videos on YouTube.
Quality support
Free support in community forums, though they have thousands of threads all questions are answered. Moreover, there is professional support available.
Third party tools
MinuteProject: Generates an OpenXava application from an already existing database. Mogwai ERDesigner: An entity relationship modeling/design tool(ERD) that generates OpenXava applications. Moskitt: A CASE tool, built on Eclipse, that generates OpenXava applications from UML models.
Active project
6 releases/year, half of them maintenance releases (just with bug fixes). Since 2005.
"Honestly, OpenXava has changed the way rapid Application Development should be. We are happy developers since then."
"I have worked before on Low-Code platforms like Mendix, Pega, OutSystems, etc. It seems easier to work without code only drag and drop and set properties, but still it is easier to work with OpenXava."
"I can't recall when I was so excited about a framework, specially for web development. I have been in the field since 1983 and I am hard to impress. With OpenXava I am impress!"
"This is like a dream come true, as I have been wanting something like that since the day I programmed my first user interface."
"I must say: my compliments! ... I have actually quite a lot of experience in UI automation. So it takes a lot to impress me. And I am impressed."
"I've been able to put together more functionality in my initial 6 days of starting to learn OpenXava (and I know nothing about java itself - yet) than I was able to accomplish in several weeks of either RoR or Laravel, and I know a bit of Ruby and PHP."
"I have been looking for a logical, understandable, simple approach to web tools for years now and OpenXava is the first thing I have found that fits that bill. Most tools like VisualStudio Web App are so extremely confusing and so many moving part that the learning curve is insurmountable."
"Openxava is brilliant. I used Wavemaker as a UI before, and that was really hard work."
"The real catch about our experience while developing with OpenXava was the speed of development without compromising the quality."
"OpenXava for me is an exceptional tool, saving us time, made it standard interfaces, imposed a criterion of unique development in the organization."
"Good tools with good support. Developer utopia!"
"I'm very excited. I have many flight hours as programmer and I didn't find something so good for a long time."
"I think OpenXava is an extraordinary tool, it makes reality a fantasy, that is MDD and at the same time works like a RAD, all this using Java."
"Excellent framework. Easy implementation, pretty simple yet very powerful."
"Great for Rapid Development."
"I am using OpenXava and finding it wonderfully refreshing, as someone who needs to program in Java with no Java knowledge it is a wonderful tool so thanks!"
"This framework never ceases to surprise me, the best development framework you've never seen, without a doubt. Speechless."
"OpenXava is a high quality framework for Java. Very productive."
July 28, 2021
Video for lesson 2 of OpenXava courseWe have published a new video of our OpenXava course. In this lesson 2 you will start to create the entities required for your project in order to get your invoicing application working. You'll learn how to define a @ManyToOne relationship, and how to display it as a combo. Also how to use stereotypes to display money fields, add photos to your form and to use memo fields. Finally, you'll see an example of using @Embeddable classes to reuse code. |