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Java - Too Many web frameworks

Hmm......... Java Web technology is exploding with many web frameworks promoted by the industry and many by opensource. Too many frameworks to choose from is a bad thing or good thing ?. Read on and judge yourselves. May be too much of anything is bad. Just look at the list below. JSF Spring MVC Tapestry Struts 2 ADF from Oracle Cocoon Maverick JBoss seam This is a never ending list. There are many more. Ofcourse not all are mainstream nowadays. Look at Microsoft stack , you mainly have ASP .NET and that's it. It has grown well.You need to learn only that and you focus all your skills in that web framework.It has accumulated many components and matured into a very robust RAD web application framework. The problem with the Java stream is you work on a particular web framework for sometime and all of a sudden you have to work in another web framework for another project.Hence the experiance one gains by working in a particular framework for long time, gets lost. This definitly lowers