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Last 8 months I have been working in ASP.NET MVC framework but now I have to switch to Java. So, I wonder what is Java's framework that is the most similar to ASP.NET MVC. I would like to stick to MVC pattern but most of my colleagues work in JSF, which doesn't seem like (real) MVC. Which one would you suggest?

BalusC
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ilija veselica
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    Related question: [Java alternative to ASP.NET MVC](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2556553/what-is-the-main-stream-java-alternative-to-asp-net-php/2556601#2556601). Please elaborate why JSF doesn't seem like real MVC. Your *actual* problem/answer is in there. @abarr: Struts is a very vintage framework. Not really worth the effort nowadays IMO. By the way, its inventor/creator Ed Burns left Apache and joined Sun about 7 years ago to create JSF. It's in essence a further evolution of Struts. – BalusC Oct 11 '10 at 13:23
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    JSF, as I heard, is similar to ASP.NET Webforms (even has something like the VIEWSTATE - yuck..) – Andrei Rînea Oct 11 '10 at 14:24

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Spring MVC have Model, View, and controller exactly like ASP.net MVC, you can use the Annotation for post or get data as you can do in ASP.net MVC

Alaa Abuzaghleh
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ile,

unfortunately, i think you'll find that there's a huge amount of collaterol in JSF with your collegues. in my opinion, you'd be better to start off with JSF as you'll have a lot of knowledge that you can feed off of initially there. then you could investigate the alternatives and try to get some peer buy-in to some of your initiatives.

see: https://gmvc.dev.java.net/

so for now, suck and see i guess.

[edit] - spring seems popular as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Framework_%28Java%29

jim tollan
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Spring framework is really easy to grasp. I did the change the other way round and the concepts where similar. I suggest you get the book Spring in action, because it explains the concepts in an easy to follow way.

Carles Company
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I'd say you stick with ASP.NET MVC because there is lot of investment going around it by Microsoft learning from previous technologies. Imagine they're now at version 3 in just 2 years span while JSF takes about 5yrs before another major release comes out.

And as a developer, you'll find yourself hanging with JSF because there is not too much people blogging about it. If there is, it would be old stuff already! Although, I have to admit I learned a lot with BalusC blog plus 2 JSF books. ASP.MVC had tons of books out.

But, ASP.NET MVC fails to compare with JSF in terms of FREE AJAX frameworks like JSF have primefaces and openfaces.

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Java Server Faces (JSF) is a java framework that looks like ASP.net MVC Spring also is another alternative of java MVC

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