Debate on best framework for developing JEE applications

Frameworks, Frameworks everywhere. Listing frameworks for developing JEE applications:

1. Echo
2. Struts
3. RIFE
4. JPublish
5. Verge
6. Action Framework
7. Expresso
8. OpenEmcee
9. JWAA
10. Smile
11. Jeenius
12. Dovetail
13. Japple
14. Nacho
15. Click
16. Cocoon
17. SOFIA
18. Spring MVC
19. JATO
20. Niggle
21. Shocks
22. Bento
23. Turbine
24. Jaffa
25. MyFaces
26. JWarp
27. Cameleon
28. Helma
29. Cassandra
30. GWT
31. Millstone
32. Tapestry
33. Canyamo
34. Folium
35. Bishop
36. TeaServlet
37. jStatemachine
38. Scope
39. Jacquard
40. Chiba
41. Genie
42. JFormular
43. Dinamica
44. Baritus
45. OXF
46. WebWork
47. Maverick
48. Jucas
49. Barracuda
50. wingS
51. jZonic
52. Warfare
53. Macaw
54. JBanana
55. Melati
56. Xoplon
57. WebOnSwing
58. Stripes
59. JSF

May be more...

Introducing Wicket

JSP is by far the worst offender, allowing the embedding of Java code directly in web pages, but to some degree almost all of the frameworks from the list (except Tapestry) above introduce some kind of special syntax to your HTML code.

Special syntax is highly undesirable because it changes the nature of HTML from the kind of pure-and-simple HTML markup that web designers are familiar with, to some kind of special HTML. This special HTML can be more difficult to preview, edit and understand.

Wicket does not introduce any special syntax to HTML. Instead, it extends HTML in a standards-compliant way via a Wicket namespace that is fully compliant with the XHTML standard. This means that you can use Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft Front Page, Word, Adobe Go Live, or any other existing HTML editor to work on your web pages and Wicket components.

A comment on struts

Struts is great for small to medium size application. When the application gets big, especially when presentation logic gets complicated, it is really a big hassle to maintain the a big xml config file. Also a problem to maintain a big properties file for message used all over the application.

This URL discusses on struts and introduces shine.

Too much frameworks, my take will be do not ignore any. Though we may not able to master many.

Struts vs JSF

A good article on Struts vs JSF. http://www.simplica.com/strutsvsjsf.htm

Choosing a java web framework

A comparison presentation given in 2008 javaone conference. http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/2008/pdf/TS-6457.pdf

This blog by Manoj maniraj has few more important points to be considered while picking your framework.

Just put in your views on the best framework.