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Butterfly Web UI 1.2.0

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Jakob Jenkov
08/05/2009
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Computers have been my hobby since I was 12. Now I'm a freelance Java developer. Like many other developers I am working on various private projects. Some are open source components (Butterfly Components - DI container, web ui, persistence api, mock test api etc.). Some are the tutorials at tutorials.jenkov.com. Yet others are web projects. I hold a bachelor degree in computer science and a master degree in IT focused on P2P networks. Jakob is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 30 posts at DZone. You can read more from them at their website. View Full User Profile

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Support for web app maintenance mode.

Butterfly Web UI is the latest addition to the Butterfly Component suite - an ultra lightweight collection of components for Java application development.

Butterfly Web UI is a very small, yet very flexible component based web framework. It is designed to use Butterfly DI Container for its configuration, meaning you get all the power of Butterfly DI Container, right in your web applications.

Butterfly Web UI is designed with both support for normal HTML web apps, as well as AJAX and RIA web apps in mind. It is very easy to integrate a Flex front end with a Butterfly Web UI "backend", serving XML instead of HTML to the Flex front end.

Version 1.2.0 of Butterfly Web UI adds a "maintenance mode" servlet filter. This filter makes it possible to switch your web application in and out of "maintenance mode". In maintenance mode, all requests are intercepted and forwarded to the same page. That way you can show your users a "This web app is down for scheduled maintenance" message, while you backup databases, files etc. in peace.

You can find Butterfly Web UI here:

 

http://butterfly.jenkov.com

 

By the way, how to take down a Java web application for maintenance without going offline, is also explained in this article:

http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-web-apps/web-app-maintenance.html

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http://butterfly.jenkov.com
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