SoA access (via Hessian and a chain dispatcher) to Apache JackRabit CMS.
W SoA, you can call from any API (Tiles, Portlet, JSTL, JSP, Servlet... any Java..... or non Java, like C++). It's just a call that happens to dispatch and execute remotely.
I may open source, I may not.
I am quite disapointed that people are silent on JSF direction other than the 2 people who did not try it.
.V
Scott Anderson wrote:
Instead of taking the approach of predicting what developers might want from Struts and JSF in the future and providing a few potentially unrealistic and overly simplistic demos, how about identifying a complete evolutionary or revolutionary sample web application and/or web service that would be truly useful to the Struts community. This application, along with the process of developing it, could be leveraged to shape what extensions to JSF and what complementary components from Struts would be worth investing in, while also serving to demonstrate proper design patterns and best practices.
In my mind this would not be another "Java Pet Store" application, but a tool that would be used and leveraged to expose this evolved platform and/or development model to developers with little or no investment on their part. It looks to me like Struts will be focusing on describing application control and integration while JSF will be focusing on the presentation layer. At least this is how I am planning to leverage the two. It is my belief that successful web applications will need to become more customizable, personalizable, *and* more usable while these application's infrastructure become simplified from the perspective of both the developer and the consumer of the application. Integration requirements, in addition to those related to usability, led me to conclude that an iterative divide and conquer approach using standardized portlets held some promise.
With this in mind, my proposal for a useful and demonstrative application would be the result of porting/supporting NetBeans' web application development APIs and relevant visual components to a JSR 168 portlet suite built on Struts components and JSF extensions. This suite would form the basis for a hosted IDE and project manager and could also leverage the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) OASIS standard to provide for project aggregation. I can see this authoring tool/portal being used to generate more focused tools and applications, a WAR factory, that in turn gets used by higher level developers and applied to more specific problem domains.
I think this group can pull off something like this.
Scott
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