Java view technologies and frameworks
programming language and libraries
Java view technologies and frameworks are web-based software libraries that provide the user interface, or "view-layer", of Java web applications. Such application frameworks are used for defining web pages and handling the HTTP requests (clicks) generated by those web pages. As a sub-category of web frameworks, view-layer frameworks often overlap to varying degrees with web frameworks that provide other functionality for Java web applications.
Java view-layer frameworks often claim to support some or all of the model–view–controller design pattern.
At a glance
Jakarta Faces (JSF), Apache Tapestry and Apache Wicket are competing component-based technologies, abstracting the stateless HTTP request-response cycle and the Jakarta Servlet API behind an object-oriented, event-driven component model.
In contrast, Struts and the Spring MVC Framework are action-oriented frameworks that provide a thinner abstraction layer over the servlet API.
Apache Tiles is a templating framework designed to work with Struts.
Facelets is a view definition and templating technology designed to work with JSF.
SiteMesh can be used with any Jakarta Pages (JSP).
Facelets, Tapestry and Wicket have their own templating approaches based on HTML/XHTML.
Apache Click uses HTML based Apache Velocity templates and plain old Java objects (POJOs), with JSP optional.
Servlet API
The Servlet API is the foundation of almost all Java Web View technologies. Servlet provides the basic mechanism for writing Java classes for web applications.
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