"For many months, developers at Groupware have been working in and out of hours developing a tag library and framework extension for Spring to facilitate rapid application development of data-centric Web applications," according to the company. "Spring Layout has now reached a level of maturity where it can be released to the open source community."

The framework extended the Spring JSP Tag framework with integrated declarative client and server-side validation, and enables the use of a single Java server page for edit and read modes.

Pluggable security with page and form field level granularity and a rich multi-page wizard form framework are also features.

Groupware claims the framework's integration allows rich form-based user interfaces for data entry that were previously seen as not capable in Web environment.

The benefits are lower management requirements, reduced administration, and lower maintenance costs, according to the company.