Hi, I'm going to start a new small-scale web-based financial application for internal use. I'm allowed to choose any web/app framework (of course need to justify). I'm familiar with Spring and Struts, with some experience on Hibernate. Here are some options under consideration (not in any particular order): 1. Shale 2. Seam 3. Struts2 4. Tapestry I would prefer JSF as component-based framework looks promising. I'm not looking for an "answer", so feel free to express your opinion. Any input will be greatly appreicated. Thanks. Michael

Hi, I myself have experiences in Struts and Spring mvc. Struts are too heavy on configuration I believe. Spring mvc is very flexible. But I have heard from several others of a new framework called Stripes. It should be very easy to start up with and intuituve to use. /Thomas