Remembering some controversy regarding the futures and roles of Struts and JSF (possibly dead by now), I thought this might be good to forward.
<opinion held="strongly"> JSF is "basically" a view-space technology, which one will be able to utilize (or ignore) from any of a number of enterprise-quality, MVC application frameworks, such as Struts. </opinion> <opinion held="weakly"> But one will also be able to deploy JSF standalone to provide "Microsoftian" solutions (quick to build, tough to maintain or extend). </opinion> Specifically regarding Struts and JSF, note especially > As a proof of concept, the JavaServer Faces based version of the > canonical "struts-example" web application is included in the > distribution, so that you can see for yourself how little had to be > changed. From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 20:17:03 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Struts-JavaServer Faces Integration Library -- Early Access Version Now Available I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of an integration library that allows you to use the recently published EA3 release of JavaServer Faces <http://java.sun.com/j2ee/javaserverfaces/> with a recent Struts build (nightly build 20030216 or later, or the upcoming 1.1-rc2 or final release). Nightly builds of this package are available at: http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-struts/nightly/struts-faces/ The sources for this package are in the "contrib/struts-faces" subdirectory of the "jakarta-struts" CVS repository. You should take note of the following important points: * The design goal of this library was to allow Struts application developers to migrate the view tier of their applications from the existing Struts tags, to pages that use corresponding JavaServer Faces component tags, with no changes to the corresponding business logic. This goal has been substantially achieved for simple applications so far; additional work will be necessary for more advanced apps. As a proof of concept, the JavaServer Faces based version of the canonical "struts-example" web application is included in the distribution, so that you can see for yourself how little had to be changed. * The integration library has been tested under Tomcat 4.1.18 and the Java Web Services Developer Pack (version 1.0_01), although in principle it should run on any Servlet 2.3/JSP 1.2 container. (It will not run on Servlet 2.2/JSP 1.1 containers). * There is a known issue when trying to run JavaServer Faces EA3 under the recently released Java Web Services Developer Pack (version 1.1). Watch the JavaServer Faces web page (at the URL listed above) for up-to-date information on workarounds. * The JavaServer Faces distribution is an EA release, not suitable for use in production environments. In addition, the license terms under which it can be downloaded prohibit redistribution. Therefore, you will need to download your own copy of JavaServer Faces EA3 and integrate it with the example application before it can be deployed. * The integration library should also be considered to be of alpha quality, not suitable for production use. There are a set of known issues and limitations at the bottom of the README.txt file. Please file bugs against this package in the usual Bugzilla location: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/ * For generic questions about JavaServer Faces (i.e. not related to this integration library), your best resource is the JavaServer Faces forum (free registration required) at: http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jsp?forum=427 See the README.txt file in the top-level subdirectory for more information about installing and using this release. Craig McClanahan _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
