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- The Spring Framework, which is the cornerstone of the GRITS Framework, provides those parts of the J2EE specification that we rejected as either too complicated, too expensive, or otherwise not addressing the project's requirements.
- Hibernate, a thin wrapper over JDBC which provides the full power of transparent persistence by providing O/R mapping but not trying to hide the underlying relational database.
- Web servers (IIS on Windows and Apache on Linux) for security-conscious service deployment.
- ColdFusion MX for web front-end development.
- Several Jakarta components, primarily Tomcat for service deployment and many of the jakarta commons for
The Databse Schema
Configuring a DataSource
An Example Hibernate Mapping File
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