JSF frameworks: Shale and Seam - JavaWorld

JavaServer Faces (JSF) brings a new paradigm to developing Web-based applications in Java. Released a few years ago, but now slated to become part of Java Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE is Sun's new name for J2EE), JSF will gradually supplant the old manner of structuring Java Web tier applications in JavaServer Pages (JSP) and servlets