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JSF looks like an old castle, where every generation added pieces, towers and buildings. I believe that the reason for the current status of JSF is that the features are defined by a specification. The specification is industry driven with a focus on being backward compatible instead of being technology driven. Everything works somehow but always rather complex than simple. Every release makes it worse as nothing is dropped. I am sorry, but I can only see a bad ending for such a strategy. Pages are extremely verbose. Using it make you feel being unproductive most of the time. JSF 2 brings some innovation but in a lot of areas it doesn't even catch up with the current status of other frameworks. It is likely to be outdated before it is actually stable. I wouldn't use it for new projects and especially not for large enterprise projects.