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PrimeFaces vs Vaadin: What are the differences?

What is PrimeFaces? *An open-source user interface component library *. It is a popular open source framework for JavaServer Faces featuring over 100 components, touch optimized mobilekit, client side validation, theme engine and more.

What is Vaadin? Components and tools for building web apps in Java. It is the fastest way to build web applications in Java. It automates the communication between your server and the browser and gives you a high-level component API for all Vaadin components.

PrimeFaces belongs to "Front-End Frameworks" category of the tech stack, while Vaadin can be primarily classified under "Frameworks (Full Stack)".

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Pros of PrimeFaces
Pros of Vaadin
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    JEE Integration
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    Support Contract available
  • 1
    Nice Components
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    Java
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    Compatibility
  • 6
    Open Source
  • 5
    Components
  • 3
    Performance
  • 2
    Abstraction
  • 2
    Example packages
  • 1
    OSGI Support

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Cons of PrimeFaces
Cons of Vaadin
  • 1
    JSF
  • 1
    Some components have to be bought
  • 3
    Paid for more features

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What is PrimeFaces?

It is a popular open source framework for JavaServer Faces featuring over 100 components, touch optimized mobilekit, client side validation, theme engine and more.

What is Vaadin?

It is the fastest way to build web applications in Java. It automates the communication between your server and the browser and gives you a high-level component API for all Vaadin components

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    AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
    Spring MVC
    A Java framework that follows the Model-View-Controller design pattern and provides an elegant solution to use MVC in spring framework by the help of DispatcherServlet.
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    It is an advanced UI component framework for easily integrating Ajax capabilities into business applications using JSF.
    BootsFaces
    It is a powerful JSF framework that takes the best from Bootstrap and jQuery UI to let develop well-designed responsive state-of-the-art next-gen Front-end Enterprise Applications fast and easy supporting HTML5.
    JSF
    It is used for building component-based user interfaces for web applications and was formalized as a standard through the Java Community
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