🆚 GWT vs. Jakarta Faces

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Frontend framework
Frontend framework

About

GWT is an open-source development toolkit that lets developers write front-end web applications in Java and compile them into optimized JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

It offers built-in support for rich UI widgets, asynchronous remote procedure calls, code splitting and resource bundling, debugging in Java IDEs, and internationalization features.

Jakarta Faces is a Java MVC framework for building web application user interfaces using reusable UI components.

It offers features such as templating with Facelets, state management across requests, dependency injections, internationalization, and an API that allows defining page views purely in Java.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
Brussels, Belgium

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Frontend Frameworks › Rank #25
Frontend Frameworks › Rank #19

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Jakarta Faces frontend framework is 1.6 times more popular than GWT.
Total websites

Market share

Frontend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Jakarta Faces is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Brazil, while GWT is more popular in France, Italy, and Spain.
United States
Germany
Brazil
France
Italy
Spain
United Kingdom
Austria
Poland
Hungary

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Jakarta Faces is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while GWT is more commonly used on education and reference, travel, and blogs and wiki sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Travel
Marketing/Merchandising
Government/Military
General News
Internet Services
Finance/Banking
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#295
#14,131
#15,528
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Rank
#1,010
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See also

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