Abstract: This paper expatiates on the design and implementation of a college curriculum management system based on lightweight framework of J2EE, analyzes the advantages in practice of Struts, Spring and Hibernate. The college curriculum management system is a part of the college management information system, and provides the fundamental data to the curriculum selection system. The paper summarizes the main functions of the curriculum management system, and provides the solutions which using Struts as presentation layer, Spring as business layer and Hibernate as persistence layer of the system. At last, the future direction of the system is outlined.

Key words: Struts framework, Spring framework, Hibernate framework, lightweight framework, curriculum management system