This is nothing against JavaServer Faces (JSF), or the soon-to-be-added Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework, JSR-371. (MVC becomes part of the standard when Java EE 8 is released.)As far as ...

Traditionally this means using a logging framework like log4j or the Java Logging API, and then writing and maintaining all necessary log statements manually. This is very tedious and error-prone ...

When Valhalla, which will add value types to Java, is delivered in the OpenJDK, the Vector API will become final. The Vector API provides a comprehensive set of functionality.