>From: Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Apr 21, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Don Brown wrote: > > > The lack of developer support is worrisome, though, regardless what > > we do with it. > > I think there's a lot of impression that Tiles is "done." From what > I can tell it pretty much fulfills 80% of the use cases and there are > workarounds for others. Most of the innovations I can think of > overlap with the portlet or JSF spaces enough that I'm not sure if > they are worth doing. When we started refactoring it I questioned > whether it was really a worthwhile effort or if it would have a > limited lifespan. I still question that at every step along the > way :-) Should we just make the bare minimum changes to get Tiles > out of the sandbox or is it worth it to do major surgery? >
+1 > There are a few other technologies I want to spend time looking at > once we get a release of Tiles. I'd like to see how it compares to > Facelets, Clay, and Sitemesh, as well as how much relevance Tiles has > in a portlet environment. Those things may help to determine the > future of Tiles. > In the JSF front, Tiles provides JSP composition. Facelets and Clay provide page composition from templates but not JSP template fragments. Clay can be used in a JSP page but cannot include a JSP fragment in it's composition. > Those are just my thoughts. > Greg Gary > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
