Framework Question

[evstevemd]

I have Questions dear friends and I hope someone will answer.
In PHP there are some frameworks (Cake, Symfony, CI which I prefer over the other). I have been doing some JSP/Java web for a while and I'm confused of web framework in Java EE. Is Javabean, Struts, JSF frameworks or what?

Thanks :D

[Eranga]

Mainly Java can be categories into three.

1. J2SE (Standard Edition)
use for the desktop application development mainly (Swing/AWT), means the basis of Java

2. J2EE (Enterprise Edition)
use for higher level implementations, specially for web applications (JSP, Servelets, etc)

3. J2ME (Micro Edition)
use for mobile application developments

[jogep]

In the Java World exists different Frameworks like Symfony or Cake in the PHP World with different approach.

There exist some MVC Frameworks like

• Struts / Struts2
• Stripes
• Spring MVC

or Component Frameworks based on JSF Standard

• JSF
• MyFaces
• Icefaces

Try it out and choose the best for your project!

[evstevemd]

Thanks friends for quick reply.
I understand MVC but not the "component" thing :)
So basically what is the different between two?
I would be happy to hear pros and cons so that I can choose what I can begin with having some background on Code Igniter

Thanks

[evstevemd]

Any more help?

[jogep]

I'am not sure because I prefer MVC Frameworks like Struts2.

With JSF and similar you use components like Buttons or Links or whatever. On this Components you register Events. It is a little bit more like programming with Swing.

[Eranga]

Actually it depends on how long you are working on a specific technology. For an example, people how are working on a lot with Swing move to JSF, because easy to map those things.