Efficient access to hibernate through JSP powered by a new tag library

Enterprise web application development is considered as a major branch in software development industry for last decade. Since electronic solutions provided by web applications are proven to be valuable in terms of efficiency and accuracy, market demand is increased and web application developers are started to move in to more rapid application development frameworks. Therefore, numbers of rapid application development frameworks are newly introduced. Object/Relational mapping mechanisms are considered to be acting a major role in this arena and even though these frameworks are capable of reducing considerable time and effort in software development, new software development frameworks are introduced day by day in order to provide better software engineering solutions. Since simplicity of development and amount of time it takes for the development are key areas to be considered in this matter, application development frameworks are now more focused on providing high-level interfaces which can reduce the development time. This paper describes an Object/Relational mapping framework which is built on Java Server Pages server scripting technology. Framework is built to provide a high-level interface for accessing data persistence layer of a web application, when Hibernate Object/Relational mapping mechanism is implemented in data persistence layer. The framework is consisted with a JSP tag library and it contains JSP based custom tags which are capable of manipulating application´s underlying data source.