AppFuse is a project that helps you start developing an application quickly. It takes care of integrating many open source projects for you. For example: Spring, Hibernate, Maven, MySQL and Struts. In addition to Hibernate, you can also use JPA or iBATIS as your backend. For your web framework, you can choose between Struts 2, JSF, Spring MVC and Tapestry. Test-first development is promoted when using AppFuse, and all the infrastructure is in place to do integration testing, unit/mock testing, as well as UI testing. Features include Authentication (using Acegi Security), Remember Me, Self Registration, Password Hint and GZip Compression. The fuse to start your apps.

AppFuse domain objects (appfuse-data-common) and DAO frameworks (Hibernate, iBATIS, JPA).

AppFuse DAO backend implemented with Hibernate (http://hibernate.org).

AppFuse DAO backend implemented with Hibernate's JPA implementation.

Spring MVC Module for AppFuse: includes Spring MVC, Display Tag and Spring Modules for validation. Include this module in your dependencies if you want to use Spring MVC as your web framework.

Tapestry Module for AppFuse: includes Tapestry with Spring and Flash messages support. Include this module in your dependencies if you want to use Tapestry as your web framework.

Common web files (images, stylesheets, scripts) and Java classes (listeners and filters) used by all web frameworks. This module is not meant to be included in a project utilizing AppFuse. It's designed to be used internally by AppFuse only.