Are there any up to date articles comparing JSF 2 and Tap 5? Everything I seem to find is comparing JSF 1.2 and Tap4.
Does anyone have any experience with T5 or JSF2 and time to evangelize one or the other?
I'm looking for a framework for rapid development in Java, on top of Hibernate and mySql.
Other framework sales pitches accepted, but JSF2 and T5 are currently our top picks.
Taking up your offer and pitching another Framework :
If you want really rapid development then you should look at the Play Framework.
I've used JSF/Richfaces/Seam/Hibernate etc and I'd say that using Play more than doubles your productivity. There are no deploy cycles. So no developer downtime. It's got JPA/Hibernate baked in and lots of plugins that extend it's functionality in other directions.
I also like the fact that it makes your pages so lightweight. My biggest issue with JSF was always the weight of the pages (unecessary IDs, lots of tables, client state etc)
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