By robertdouglass on

It just came to my attention that the website for the Spring Framework, a really nice IoC container for Java, runs on Drupal. This is pretty interesting, especially since Spring+Webwork is one highly promoted and praised method for making dynamic webapps in Java. It makes one wonder why they didn't feel like chowing their own doggy treats. I can understand, though. They build a framework with lots of nice tools, but it's not like you install Spring and have a website, ready to go. So they probably wanted to save time and grab something that already has the feature set of the website they wanted, thus Drupal was chosen. As a fan of Spring, I'm glad to see that some of those very bright minds over there are aware (and apparently fans) of Drupal. The respect is mutual.

http://www.springframework.org/

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robertdouglass commented

We have a very finite amount of resources which are frankly better spent on enhancing parts of Spring that are of use to the largest audience, not on modifying or implementing a CMS. While we did have to spend a decent amount of time tweaking the theme to our satisfaction, and inputing the old content, equivalent or more effort of this type would have been requiered with any solution. On the other hand, Drupal out of the box comes with all the functionality we need, so we didn’t have to spend any of those scarce resources on development or customization of the product itself. It’s that simple.

cited from http://rajblog.com/blog/?p=295

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dtan commented

It also seems that the DWR site for integrating AJAX with JAVA is a drupal site as well. http://getahead.ltd.uk/dwr

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jonesprabu commented

I want to know the diffrence and the future of Spring Framework and Drupal, And also want to know which one is the better and the reason for the better one?
Can we use Drupal as enterprise application?

Thanks in advance.