John O’Hanley, author of the Web4J framework, gives an interview over at DZone. You might remember him as the guy who assailed Spring’s cult-like qualities. He’s positioning Web4J as a simple, non-RIA framework that is nevertheless (unlike Wicket or JSF) a full a stack. He’s also fairly cheeky, as if the last post on this topic didn’t make it clear: he says the number one reason that you might choose Web4J is that “you are in pain” (from a life of overly complex Java programming, or maybe just in general). Software Development