Hi,

Starting project with right technologies is really big investment. If you are intended to use JSF as your presentation layer then must have a look at JBoss Seams.

In short,

1. No managed bean handling.
2. Lots of other features for JSF.
3. Ajax for JSF
4. Entity beans as Managed Beans and Domain Model Classes.
5. No XML configuration for settings, Annotation based.

If you have some more points to share; don’t hesitate to write comments.