Here’s a brain dump of my current thoughts on Web Frameworks:
Click with OpenRico. A simple and effective however there are some gaps for more complex flows. Some good OpenRico examples for simple DHTML effects and AJAX.
Wicket. More complicated than Click and generates less HTML for you. However, it would work well with Web designers - templates are valid XHTML. I like it but the documentation leaves something to be desired.
On the radar is JSF, GWT, Tibco GI, Yahoo UI, Dojo:
JSF with an open source stack of MyFaces+Tomahawk + Facelets (templating to avoid JSP)
consider JBoss Seam for scoping beans
Perhaps with Exadel Eclipse Plugin
JBoss have recently open sourced this plugin - perhaps they purchased Exadel? (Only found out a couple of nights ago about that one)
Consider Netbeans. It has some good JSF support.
GWT. Looks great for single-page web applications like Gmail.
will update again soon…