JSF and Spring performance vs poor JSP performance

Question

I saw some JSF projects developed by my collegues and these projects seemed to me very slow. Does anybody have the same opinion?

I\'m currently using jsp+jstl and jQuer

Answer 1

Many advantages. I can enumerate JSF advantages which are those I've used in my last project.

• Centralized place for the navigation (like in struts)
• Components like a date-picker, auto-completion, paging, etc.
• You have renders for the layout which facilitates a lot some layout logic.
• Availability of tiles, like in struts.

JSP doesn't make a clear separation between business logic and layout.

Anyway, although all this advantages and if you are a Java programmer I would advice to take alook at Grails which is pretty much more comfortable.