Django like framework for Java [closed]

Take a look at LightAdmin pluggable administration interface for Spring/JPA-backed web applications.

Usually, in web application development, you need to have some kind of administration back-end with usable UI and it's boring to develop it from scratch all the time and maintain it in the future.

Personally, I solved this for my Java projects by simply plugging LightAdmin library and doing some customizations from DSL configurations.

All you need to do is to declare Maven dependency & enable administration panel in your web.xml. Right after this you'll have a feature-rich UI with complete CRUD support, filtering, scopes, security, etc.

LightAdmin's DSL for admin panel customization example:

@Administration( Booking.class )public class BookingAdministration {public static ScopesConfigurationUnit scopes( final ScopesConfigurationUnitBuilder scopeBuilder ) {    return scopeBuilder        .scope( "All", all() )        .scope( "Smoking Apartments", specification( smokingApartmentsSpec( true ) ) )        .scope( "Non Smoking Apartments", specification( smokingApartmentsSpec( false ) ) )        .scope( "Long-term bookings", filter( longTermBookingPredicate() ) ).defaultScope().build();}public static FiltersConfigurationUnit filters( final FiltersConfigurationUnitBuilder filterBuilder ) {    return filterBuilder        .filter( "Customer", "user" )        .filter( "Booked Hotel", "hotel" )        .filter( "Check-In Date", "checkinDate" ).build();}public static FieldSetConfigurationUnit listView( final FieldSetConfigurationUnitBuilder fragmentBuilder ) {    return fragmentBuilder        .field( "user" ).caption( "Customer" )        .field( "hotel" ).caption( "Hotel" )        .field( "checkinDate" ).caption( "Check-In Date" )        .field( "smoking" ).caption( "Smoking" )        .field( "beds" ).caption( "Beds" )        .build();}public static DomainTypePredicate<Booking> longTermBookingPredicate() {    return new DomainTypePredicate<Booking>() {        @Override        public boolean apply( final Booking booking ) {            return booking.getNights() > 20;        }    };}public static DomainTypeSpecification<Booking> smokingApartmentsSpec( final boolean isSmokingApartment ) {    return new DomainTypeSpecification<Booking>() {        @Override        public Predicate toPredicate( final Root<Booking> root, final CriteriaQuery<?> query, final CriteriaBuilder cb ) {            return cb.equal( root.get( "smoking" ), isSmokingApartment );        }    };}}

Recently I found a framework which looked very much like django. It's called playframework and you can find it here:

http://playframework.org/

I suggest you watch the video on the front page.

Another Java based django-like framework is Spring Roo, but in my opinion it's not quite ready. Last time I used it the documentation was virtually non-existent.

http://www.springsource.org/roo

Also for my new project i have a short deadline and i would like to use some kind of java framework that speeds development.

I would be cautious about doing a project with a short deadline using a framework that I am not familiar with. It sounds like a recipe for deadline overruns. Stick with technology that you are already familiar with ... and wait for a project with more relaxed deadlines where you can afford the time to make a few mistakes.