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Spring MVC Vs JSF - What are the differences?
Below table lists out the differences between JSF and Spring MVC, Advantage of one over other and their differences over architecture.
JSF | Spring MVC |
FacesServlet is the central Servlet that dispatches requests to managed Bean class. | DispatcherServlet is the central Servlet that dispatches requests to controllers. |
Managed Bean class executes the business logic, sets the processing result to the response | Controller class executes the business logic, sets the processing result to the response |
JSf configuration file: faces-config.xml | Spring MVC configuration file: <logical name of DispatcherServlet in web.xml>-servlet.xml |
Navigation rule is specified in JSf configuration file (faces-config.xml) | Navigation rule is specified by using HandlerMapping in spring configuration file ( <logical name of DispatcherServlet in web.xml>-servlet.xml ) |
Renderer takes care of response | ViewResolver takes care of response |
JSP/facelets are used for view | View implementation class/JSP is used for view |
Less Support for Dependency Injection | Full Support for Dependency Injection |
Given by Sun Specification | Given by Interface 2.1 |
Has basic built in input validation | Developer has to implement validations. |
Built in support for AJAX | No built in support for AJAX |
Supports JSF expression language | Supports JSP expression language |
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