I forward to the list what a jsf developer has written to me: I'm working with him on a project where he has to develop the web application and I'm working on a web service consumed by his web application.
I had forwarded to him a message by Thiago that was trying to point out differences between T5 and JSF. The interesting thing he has to say is about facelets as a way to use standard XHTML templates inside JSF. Also the difficulty to use together different component sets is interesting: reminds me of the issue with different JavaScript components in T5. But what really surprises me is the similarity he found between struts and JSF -------- Messaggio originale -------- Hi Ivano, We do indeed use JSF for our web development and more specifically we use Icefaces which is a set of AJAX enabled components and AJAX push framework which sits on top of JSF. We chose to use JSF because it wasn't too dissimilar from Struts which we were using before. Generally we find it very good although it does have some shortcomings but they don't tend to get in the way too much. We are using JSF 1.2 but JSF 2.0 is now available and adds support for some of the things on your list such as, you can now use annotations for lots of things you use to have to use XML for, there is also the addition of page level scope as per the tapestry idea. One point the tapestry guy is wrong about though is that with JSF you don't have to use JSP, that is only one option. We use facelets which is now part of the JSF 2.0 spec so if you use that you code directly in XHTML using the relevant faces tags, thus the problems that came from using JSP as a display layer disappear. With JSF you get a choice of which component set you want to use, or I believe you can use multiple but then configuration becomes more challenging. We looked at a number including Richfaces and Woodstock and decided that Icefaces offered the best set of components. All three of those are open source though so are completely free to use, although support is available too. Unfortunately I don't know a great deal about tapestry so I can't really say how it compares to JSF, I think you'd have to evaluate them both and decide which one is easier for you to work with based on your previous experience. Hope that helps, Darren --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
