Shocks has joined the haus. We're still in the process of migrating everything to our infrastructure, but we'd like to welcome N. Alex Rupp and his Shocks web framework.

Shocks is a departure from previous servlet framework technologies. It is conceptually unique in that it does not attempt to implement the "MVC" design pattern or any derivative thereof. It uses a next-generation architecture which cleanly separates the roles of its internal components. This makes the framework more flexible and modular.

The core of the Shocks project is a lightweight workflow engine. One of our goals is to support application workflows which span over more than one Action and/or Presentation component. Another goal is to support JSR-94--business rules based workflow processing (a la Drools).