Re: [shale] Advantages of Shale over JSF alone

2005-11-08 Thread gramani
Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/08/2005 10:19:17 AM: > > On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:00 AM, Garner, Shawn wrote: > > > I don't immediately see the benefits to using Shale over JSF alone. > > I'm sort of a JSF newbie and I've had a hard time seeing the > advantages as well. But I think th

Re: [shale] Advantages of Shale over JSF alone

2005-11-08 Thread Greg Reddin
On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:00 AM, Garner, Shawn wrote: I don't immediately see the benefits to using Shale over JSF alone. I'm sort of a JSF newbie and I've had a hard time seeing the advantages as well. But I think the light is beginning to flicker just a bit. One very clear advantage I note

RE: [shale] Advantages of Shale over JSF alone

2005-11-08 Thread Garner, Shawn
the details there but being new to JSF too they just kind of blend in with JSF features. Shawn D. Garner -Original Message- From: David G. Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 9:13 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [shale] Advantages of Shale ove

RE: [shale] Advantages of Shale over JSF alone

2005-11-08 Thread David G. Friedman
Let's see: You can do some pre-view init based on the path, which JSF alone won't let you do. You can have dialogs/wizards/step-based forms, which JSF alone won't let you do. You can use a different view technology which allows you to skip JSP and use HTML templates directly (or use it in concer