Helma is a server-side Javascript environment and web application framework for fast and efficient scripting and serving of your websites and Internet applications.

Helma is written in Java and employs Javascript for its server-side scripting environment, removing the need for compilation cycles and reducing development costs while giving you instant access to leverage the whole wealth of Java libraries out there.

Helma pioneered the simple and codeless mapping of application objects to database tables. In addition, an embedded object-oriented database performs automatic data persistence of unmapped objects.

Helma has proven itself to be stable and fast, capable of serving high traffic sites with hundreds of thousands of dynamic pages per day. The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, popular weblog hosting sites such as antville.org, twoday.net, and blogger.de, among many others, have successfully been deploying Helma for several years.

Markdown on helma.org

As of today, the Helma website supports Markdown as page markup format and uses it as default for new pages. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format. Read more.

Announcing Helma NG 0.3

It's been a long time coming, but we're happy to finally announce the 0.3 release of Helma NG, a completely rearchitected and slimmed down successor of Helma. Have a look at the demo app to see what Helma NG is about, and download your copy from github today!

Helma turns 1.6.3

Helma is 1.6.3 and ready to be downloaded! She is now more mature and more stable than ever. Just see the long list of ways in which she's changed. She is ready for your projects!

Helma 1.6.3-rc3 ready for testing

The third release candidate can be taken for a spin. See the Helma 1.6.3 Changelog for detailed information about the changes included in this new version.

Release Candidate 3 contains some additional important changes, such as the totalUploadLimit value now being applied also to ordinary form post requests, as well as preventing a potential problem with the insertion order and making it easier to run Helma in other servlet containers.

Helma 1.6.3 Release Candidate 2

A second release candidate is ready to download. Please take a moment to check for any remaining problems with these packages.

See the Helma 1.6.3 Changelog for detailed information about the changes included in this new version.

Release Candidate 1 of Helma 1.6.3 has landed

The Helma 1.6.3rc1 release candidate contains numerous bug fixes and many minor improvements, such as support for secure HttpOnly session cookies, logging improvements, several changes to the way file paths to different resources are resolved, and Helma is now again backwards compatible with Java 1.4, to mention just a few. See the Helma 1.6.3 Changelog for more detailed information about the changes.

Now, please go download Helma 1.6.3rc1 and let us know in case something in these packages isn't ready for prime time!