# Takes

Java web framework built from immutable, object-oriented components, with an embedded HTTP server and no configuration files.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/takes/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-26
Listed since: 2026-10-26

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.takes.org/
- repository: https://github.com/yegor256/takes
- docs: https://github.com/yegor256/takes/blob/master/README.md

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Yegor Bugayenko
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2015
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: framework
- hosting: java
- language: java
- runtime: jvm
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: xslt, velocity
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: Maven dependency

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-04-28

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 877
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 91
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://www.takes.org/ (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/yegor256/takes (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://github.com/yegor256/takes/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- description: https://github.com/yegor256/takes/blob/master/pom.xml (read 2026-10-26)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/yegor256/takes/tags (read 2026-10-26)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yegor256/takes/master/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-10-26)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/yegor256/takes (read 2026-10-26)
- runtime: https://github.com/yegor256/takes/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- category: https://github.com/yegor256/takes/blob/master/pom.xml (read 2026-10-26)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/yegor256/takes (read 2026-10-26)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yegor256/takes/master/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-10-26)
- installMethod: https://github.com/yegor256/takes/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- installMethod: https://github.com/yegor256/takes/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- installMethod: https://github.com/yegor256/takes/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- runsAs: https://github.com/yegor256/takes/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- templating: https://github.com/yegor256/takes/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- templating: https://github.com/yegor256/takes/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/yegor256/takes/releases (read 2026-10-26)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/yegor256/takes/releases (read 2026-10-26)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/yegor256/takes (read 2026-10-26)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/yegor256/takes/contributors (read 2026-10-26)

## Notes

Takes is a Java web framework built from immutable, object-oriented components. It starts its own HTTP server from a Java `main` method, so the application runs as a long-lived process rather than as files that a web space serves. Pages can be rendered as XML transformed with XSLT, which the [README](https://github.com/yegor256/takes/blob/master/README.md) recommends for HTML, or with Apache Velocity templates.

## Worth knowing

The README lists WebSockets as not, and never to be, supported.

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