OpenXava announces the release of version 3.0.1 today. OpenXava is a framework to develop Java Enterprise/J2EE applications rapidly and easily. Allows you to define applications just with POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects), JPA (Java Persistence API) and Java 5 annotations. Feature rich and flexible since it’s used for years to create business applications with Java.

OpenXava generates Java Web Applications (J2EE/JavaEE), they can be deployed in any Java Portal Server (JSR168) as portlet applications. OpenXava works on the concept of business components as opposed to MVC (Model-View-Controller) programming methods.

According to the OpenXava web site:

OpenXava is a productive way for creating Enterprise Applications with Java. Indeed, it’s faster developing with OpenXava than with Ruby On Rails, Spring MVC, or any other MVC framework. This is because in OpenXava you only have to write the Model. The Controllers are reused, and the View are generated automatically. We can say that OpenXava is a Mc framework.

A download is available, as is a tutorial.