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Apache Tapestry is a component-oriented framework for creating web applications in Java. Tapestry applications are build from pages which are constructed from components. The framework takes care about input validation, localization/internationalization, state/persitency management, URL construction/parameter mapping, etc.

Conclusion: don't use JSF simply because it's a "standard". Use other frameworks that are more actively developed and designed for the web. For component-based frameworks, the most popular are Tapestry and Wicket. Less popular ones are RIFE and Click.

After nearly two years of work, the Tapestry development team is proud to announce the next major release of the Tapestry web application framework.

The article arose from having to make a recommendation on which of the two frameworks to use in a real project. It's a task I can imagine many Java developers facing in the months to come.