JSF appears to be very enterprisey, and not quite what the "popular" web-word views web applications as. If you are moving from PHP to another language because

JSF appears to be very enterprisey, and not quite what the "popular" web-word views web applications as. If you are moving from PHP to another language because of the "popular" view, the least you could do is pick a framework that won't blow monkey-chunks. That said, if you're still serious about moving from PHP - which more than gets things done IMO - then I suggest looking at Play Framework[1]. It's pretty awesome, and comes in a Scala version as well. [1]. http://www.playframework.org/ http://www.playframework.org/