Java MVC structure closest to Asp.net mvc3?

Question

this is likely to decrease etc. in order to be ambiguous, but I am attached to time and hoped that someone with much more experience could jump here and give me a nod in the right direction.

I am developing several medium-sized business applications with several developers in ASP.NET MVC (3). My team and I need to create a Java EE web application. I would like to keep everything as consistent as possible - I used CakePHP in the past and noticed that it was very easy when you jumped up after the ASP.NET MVC Stuff.

What is the best / most similar MVC framework for Java? Many of the guys just spent the last few months studying all the new MVC3 / Razor materials after they came from the more classic ASP or C / C ++. I really want to keep everything as consistent as possible to avoid unnecessary confusion.

Thanks!

Edit: Also, I think I should ask with your recommendation, if one particular IDE has much better integration than another, I'm interested!

Answer 1

You can consider the JSF / Seam (or) Spring MVC framework. AFAIK, JSF / Seam is most reminiscent of .NET MVC3.

Answer 2

Just an alternative point of view to consider: There are many more important factors to consider when choosing a framework outside of "does this look like x, which I already know about." Think about which tools are best for solving the problem, and less about what is best / easiest for you. Ultimately, if you intend to work with Java in your enterprise, you will probably have to learn a few other frameworks and move between them anyway. You can really take your project off foot if you choose JSF just because it is "like .NET."

And only because of this I seem to answer the question: in fact, there is no Java structure that approximates what Microsoft has done with .NET MVC. The whole “thing after ASP.NET” reminds me a lot of PHP and Spring before annotation-based configuration. Again, I quit .NET in 2009, so I probably need to shut up now.