There has been a rise in frontend frameworks, and these have competed with each other to become dominant frameworks for the web. JavaServer Faces (JSF), while it isn't the new kid on the block, still has a fairly large community and is the primary framework in the Java EE space for building UIs, which makes it a force to be reckoned with.
JSF is the standard user interface for building applications with Java EE. It takes a component-based approach to building the UI, which is different to the traditional request-based model. While it has been around for over a decade, it didn't gain much traction, arguably, until the 2.x release. There have been supporting frameworks and libraries built around JSF, and thus it enjoys good community ...
