On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:46:03 -0800, Dakota Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ???? > > Whatever happened to the proposals to move this JSF implementation to > MyFaces? That would seem to be much more appropriate. Perhaps it > could be called JSFShale or FacesShale? What this has to do at all > with Struts has never, in my opinion, been explained, beyond the > desire to appropriate the Struts name. >
As has become depressingly common, you have the most important question totally backwards. JSF will succeed or fail on its own merits. Struts is irrelevant to that, other than the fact that we can provide a path to use ~10% of JSF's capabilities (you can use JSF components but not the rest of the capabilities of JSF via the integration library). Struts, on the other hand, is already (without taking JSF into consideration) a long ways behind the state of the art. With the advent of JSF, it borders on becoming (over time) irrelevant for new application development. Of course that is not an instantanous process, but you can't stop fundamental shifts in direction, either. And none of the proposed 1.3.x changes make the slightest bit of difference in this regard. What is it going to say to the world if the person who *developed* Struts in the first place says it is no longer the best solution? That appears to be a foregone conclusion if the Struts development community agrees with your position. (This is *not* my preference, which is why I'm still pushing Shale to be Struts 2.x -- but let's be clear; this is a "put up or shut up" sort of decision.) Even if that happens, there will clearly be a transition period for existing applications. And I will be happy to support transition users, with the Struts-Faces Integration Library. But, from what I have seen in the market, Struts is becoming increasingly less relevant for new application development. JSF is only going to accelerate that trend -- but it was there already. Anyone who ignores what is happening already is acting like an ostrich. That's not something I plan to do. If the Struts community doesn't support something like Shale, I'm *personally* going to compete with it for new development. That doesn't seem like a "good thing", but sometimes that sort of thing happens. > Jack Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
