Pros and Cons of Various Java Web Presentation Layer Technologies

Question

I\'m currently working on a web app that makes heavy use of JSF and IceFaces. We\'ve had some discussions of moving to another presentation layer, and I thought I\'d take th

Answer 1

In short:

= JSF =

PROS:

• component architecture;
• many libraries & tools;
• somewhat good IDE support

CONS:

• heavy weight, both in CPU/memory and learning curve;
• when something doesn't work as expected, it's difficult to debug

= WICKET =

PROS:

• lightweight;
• sensible templating system;
• good tutorials;

CONS:

• reference documentation is not so well organized and deep as are the tutorials;
• development team had some serious difficulties, especially when becoming and incubated project. This lead to confusion on important aspects of the framework, at that time I had to switch to another framework because of this...