With more than 34,000 registered developers as part of its successful open source community, Expresso has established itself as the most popular development framework for Java developers. Since Expresso's release in June 1999, it has been downloaded ~170,000 times and the number of downloads continues to accelerate. This rapid adoption, coupled with the breadth and depth of the framework and its commitment to integrate with other proven open source projects makes the Expresso framework the best possible choice. Expresso is available free of charge for download at http://www.jcorporate.com/expresso.html.

Expresso is differentiated by its intentional and cooperative effort in the creation of an architectural framework that builds on the evolving Java standards and integrating best of breed open source components. Release 5.6 includes Struts Validator integration, Velocity support, and Maven integration complementing several other open source projects integrated. Expresso integrates and builds on many open source projects including Ant, Bouncycastle, Cactus, Commons, Log4J, ORO, Oswego Concurrent, JUnit, Struts, Tiles, Velocity, Xalan, Xerces, and more.

Expresso provides more than 65,881 lines of ready-to-go code in 593 classes. A framework standardized approach means less coding, easier maintenance and debugging, and a fast learning curve. Instead of tedious, repetitive coding, programmers focus on cost- and time-efficient development.

?Certainly, developers suffer the consequences of poorly architected systems. Their lives will be made better both personally and professionally by enterprise architectures. Their work projects will be more interesting, and the horrible errors that lead to throwing out months of work can be avoided. It?s a disciplined software engineering approach to application systems development.? said Sandra Cann, COO. "Using Expresso's architectural framework which leverages proven open source projects means reduced risk and reduced cost of project deployment."

"Expresso gives us everything we need to build enterprise strength software, while also providing a solid software architecture which is constantly evolving and embracing new technologies as they emerge and integrating them into the major framework." said Amaizo Henri Yves, Technology Manager Edis software France. "For this reason GFI Progiciels in France uses Expresso as the main key of the development software platform" said Marcel Didier, GFI Progiciels General Manager."