On 1/6/06, Rick Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. I've done a couple of industrial-strength websites using Struts, > Tiles & JSTL. I decided to start on a little personal project, mostly > as a way to get on board with some technologies, some of which I've > used before (maven 1/2, torque), some which I want to learn (JSF, > Shale). > > I looked around the Shale pages a bit last night, and found myself > unable to grasp what it offered. I also looked at some of the JSF > introductory articles, and was concerned that they referenced pre- > release versions of JSF, and didn't reference Shale.
I'd definitely ignore anything about prereleases of JSF 1.0 ... that has been out for nearly two years now. A good starting place for general JSF knowledge and information is <http://jsfcentral.com>. Kito does a good job of staying on top of the most recent articles and items of interest. This, by the way, is *exactly* the place to start before looking much at Shale itself -- Shale *srongly* presumes that you are familiar with JSF, and what it brings to the table all by itself, because it focuses on adding value around the edges. Without understanding those edges a little, it's harder to appreciate the benefits :-). I'm happy to abandon Struts if it makes sense, and certainly I'd like > to replace Struts components when functionality is provided by Shale/ > JSF. > > Can someone point me to (or give me) an appropriate overview? Thank > you very much! Beyond the Shale web site[1], there's not a heck of a lot of stuff yet. One high level overview is the session I did at ApacheCon (reprised from one that David Geary and I did at JavaOne)[2] ... but the slides lose a little in the translation without the corresponding demo program, which is not in a shape that I'm quite ready to check in yet :-). -- > Rick Craig [1] http://struts.apache.org/struts-shale/ [2] http://people.apache.org/~craigmcc/apachecon-2005-shale.pdf
