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guava vs JSF: What are the differences?
Developers describe guava as "Google Core Libraries for Java 6+". The Guava project contains several of Google's core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based projects: collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and so forth. On the other hand, JSF is detailed as "It is used for building component-based web interfaces". It is used for building component-based user interfaces for web applications and was formalized as a standard through the Java Community.
guava and JSF can be categorized as "Java" tools.
guava is an open source tool with 33.2K GitHub stars and 7.4K GitHub forks. Here's a link to guava's open source repository on GitHub.
Conceptboard, Zalando, and RELEX Solutions are some of the popular companies that use guava, whereas JSF is used by GameDuell, Universidade CEUMA, and Maps S.A.. guava has a broader approval, being mentioned in 23 company stacks & 84 developers stacks; compared to JSF, which is listed in 13 company stacks and 18 developer stacks.
Pros of guava
- Interface Driven API5
- Easy to setup1
Pros of JSF
- Rich and comprehensive Request Life-cycle2
- Very Mature UI framework1
- Server Side component1