JEE Development

Sean Kelly (http://seankelly.tv/videos) created a few month ago a webcast comparing web application frameworks. It´s totally worth
watching it. So, due to the reason, that the webcast is nearly 2 years old, jee developers, managers and decision makers should also consider that there are new and interesting frameworks like appfuse,  seam and wicket to evaluate. Also the webcast contains only trivial demos.

Screencast URL: http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web-app.mov

The graphs of frameworks (JSF, Ruby rails, Spring MVC, Webwork, Struts 2, Tapestry) from indeed.com shows job trends. It´s interesting to see that the Java Server Faces Framework is the framework matching the most job postings today.

Take me to the graph!

Take also a look at the Javapolis (2007) Whiteboard results page and the web framework usage.
Struts 1.x has the same amount of voting results like JSF. Spring is nearby. But i think Struts 1.x votes are high because it´s actually the oldest framework among tapestry.