Wikipedia has listed over 85 web applications frame works with Java based on the top – 28. Below table lists of most widely used web Application Frameworks products available today.
| Product | what type of project is best fit? |
| Struts 2 | The new version Struts 2.0 is a combination of the Sturts action framework and Webwork (a total redesign). Struts2 may a good fit for an enterprise application when there is existing Struts resource and projects of medium complexity. |
| Spring MVC | Good choice for medium sized project. Convention-based defaults for controllers, model object names, and view resolves. Spring MVC addresses request-driven processing at the HTTP level. It does not aim to provide a component model like JSF. |
| Stripes | An open source web application framework based on MVC pattern. It aims to be a more lightweight framework than Struts by using annotations and generics that were introduced in Java 1.5, to achieve "convention over configuration". |
| JSF | JSF will be a better fit if the need is to build a complex web application with lots of user interaction and traffic. JSF is the choice when you want to build desktop-like functionality to the browser within the standard specification and large amounts of third-party features. JSF places heavy emphasis on being able to scale requirements and complexity well. JSF may be too heavy weight for small to medium web applications. |
| GWT | Google Web Toolkit is an open source a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. GWT is used by many products at Google, including Google Wave and Google AdWords. |
| Tapestry5 | Tapestry emphasizes simplicity, ease of use, and aims to avoid forcing programmers to create enormous blocks of "glue code", using Convention over Configuration paradigm. |
Below is a trend analysis that shows the requirement for major Web Application frame work (source: http://www.indeed.com ) over the last 5 years.
| Java Server Face (JSF) is NOT a good fit for all web applications.JSF will be a better fit if the need is to build a complex web application with lots of user interaction and traffic. |
| JSF can be an over kill for small web applications because of it complexity and learning curve. |
| Popularity analysis shows that new frame works like GWT, Spring MVC and Struts2 has better industry acceptance than JSF. |
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