Glitter and misery of Java web frameworks

Hi, Habr! Help me choose a web framework? Requirements: fashionable, youth, popular, high-quality framework for solo techno-nomad.

Do we need to read the next post about it every month?

A few years of participation in projects on the border of the enterprise and the system have finally beaten off the scent. To understand the question, I looked at the top of Google and found there a bunch of one-sided ratings. Probably the best was Java Web Frameworks Index from ZeroTurnaround.

Good he is that

• the creators thoroughly pooled, and also dragged there the statistics of StackOverflow, LinkedIn, GitHub - about the same thing that we would have done;
• Obviously, for ZeroTurnaround, a correct understanding of the layout of frameworks is the basis for making money.

Here is how the rating looks at the time of this writing:

Wait, there Struts in the top ten? Seriously? It seems I have not lost anything in these few years. More precisely, even since the early Middle Ages.

Let's go through the list.

Oh, Spring MVC and Spring Boot are two different list items? Perhaps this can be understood and forgive? ( write in the comments! ). It makes no sense to ask, what does Spring have to do - he, like Docker, always has it.

By the way, Jurgen Heller is meeting with us at the JPoint 2018 Moscow - this is the main sprinkler. Here you can dryuit questions such as "what's the spring here" in full.

But what is really scary is that between them (that is, in fact, in the first place) is JSF. Once I did some discussions on ENT about what template engine for Java is the best. The years went by, but there was always half the thread with a universal answer: why do you need a template engine when there is a JSF? Initially, there was just JSP / JSTL, but then they slowly lost ground, and only JSF remained.

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sudo gem install git_fame
git fame

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