Rethinking Java Web UIs With Jakarta Faces and Quarkus

Nowadays, Java enterprise applications often default to Angular, React, or Vue for the frontend. But for this kind of application, the most natural UI framework already exists in the Java ecosystem: Jakarta Faces. Modern Java enterprise applications tend to follow a familiar pattern: a Java backend exposing REST APIs and a JavaScript/TypeScript frontend built with some library like Angular, React, or Vue. This architecture has become so standard that we rarely question it.