Modality alternatives and similar libraries
Based on the "Database" category.
Alternatively, view Modality alternatives based on common mentions on social networks and blogs.
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Lettuce
Advanced Java Redis client for thread-safe sync, async, and reactive usage. Supports Cluster, Sentinel, Pipelining, and codecs. -
OpenDJ
OpenDJ is an LDAPv3 compliant directory service, which has been developed for the Java platform, providing a high performance, highly available, and secure store for the identities managed by your organization. Its easy installation process, combined with the power of the Java platform makes OpenDJ the simplest, fastest directory to deploy and manage. -
Spring Data JPA MongoDB Expressions
Use the MongoDB query language to query your relational database, typically from frontend.
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Modality is a lightweight but hightly configurable Java ORM, with a companion set of tools
docs home modality-core doc modality-webapp doc velocity-tools-model doc javadocs
Modality ORM library
Encompases a data access layer, a hierarchical and reentrant model definition gathering SQL queries, database values, names custom filters and much more. See [modality-core's REAME](modality-core).
Usage: include the needed module(s) in your pom.xml
's dependencies section as follow:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.republicate.modality</groupId>
<artifactId>modality-core</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
Modality Web anti-framework
While the ORM is usable on its own or within other Java/Kotlin web frameworks, the project comes with a companion set of tools which stick to the J2EE and JDBC standards to provide a lightweight, loosely coupled and highly cusomizable MVC pull architecture based on the Java J2EE servlets API.
Its design is based on a bottom-up approach rather than top-down. This makes Modality an anti-framework: its various components do stick to the underlying norms, have a minimal interdependance and just do the specific task they are intended to, leveraging the learning curve and added complexity, and nevertheless those components assembly cover all the basic needs of a fully functional MVC webapp.
- the Model layer is addressed with a generic ORM Java API witouth any code generation and with minimal optional caching, providing a complete database structure reverse enginering feature.
- the View layer is Apache Velocity, but other Java View layer technologies can easily be used instead.
- the Control layer is decentralized in URI to path conventions (like serving basedir
/foo.vhtml
forGET /foo.vhtml
), configuration files and helpers. It can easily be blended in existing frameworks.
Components:
- [modality-api-client](modality-api-client) - API client utility for JSON/XML APIs.
- [modality-webapp](modality-webapp) - servlets and filters for Modality-core configuration and initialization in a J2EE webapp environment.
- [modality-webapp-auth](modality-webapp-auth) - authentication filters assortment.
- [velocity-tools-model](velocity-tools-model) - view layer model tool which encapsulates modality-core model objects for use with Apache Velocity Tools.
Modules modality-webapp
and modality-webapp-auth
have been published with v1.0 because they are needed by modality-example-bookshelf
, but shall undergo some refactoring.