What are the pros and cons of the assorted Java web frameworks? [closed]

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I’ve used Tapestry 3, Wicket, Echo, and JSF fairly extensively. I’d really recommend you look those over and pick the one that appears the easiest for you, and to most closely fit the way you prefer to work.

Of them, the most comfortable for me to work with was Wicket, due to the lightweight nature of component building and simplicity of page templating. That goes doubly so if you are using your own db code instead of Hibernate or some other framework (I was never completely happy with Wicket Hibernate or Spring Integration).

Echo is great if you don’t mind writing all of your layout in Java. I know that is different now, but I still think that product serves a fairly narrow niche. They change the development model with every major release as well it seems.

Tapestry is a great product, but it is obviously very different from the others in terms of development model as it is led mainly by one dude. Howard Lewis Ship is no doubt quite smart, but I am disappointed with their decision to basically forget backwards compatibility with each release. Again, though, for your needs this may not matter, and I’ve always found the Tapestry products pleasurable to work against.

JSF has been out for years, and still feels like something that a Struts guy built to fix all of the problems of Struts. Without really understanding all of the problems with Struts. It still has an unfinished feel to it, although the product is obviously very flexible. I use it and have some fondness for it, with great hopes for its future. I think the next release (2.0) to be delivered in JEE6 will really bring it into its own, with a new template syntax (similar to Facelets) and a simplified component model (custom components in only 1 file… finally).

And, of course, there are a million smaller frameworks and tools that get their own following (Velocity for basic needs, raw JSPs, Struts, etc). I generally prefer component oriented frameworks myself, though.

In the end, I’d recommend just taking a look at Tapestry, Wicket, and JSF and just picking the one that feels the best to you. You’ll probably find one that just fits the way you like to work very quickly.

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