Adding to Jason's third point - if you normally have a graphic designer (or a team of them) working on the design/layout/graphics of your web pages, I think that JSF will be a very large hurdle for them, if not a complete roadblock to productivity. The vision for JSF is that tools like Macromedia will let designers operate like normal, but the tools will generate JSF tags instead of HTML tags. I'd have to guess that it will be quite awhile before that is achieved. In the mean time, you'll have to figure out a way for designers to write JSF tags, or some developer's gonna get stuck turning the designers' HTML into JSF tags every time there's a UI change. Doesn't sound like fun to me.
Rob ---- On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Jason Carreira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 1. WebWork decouples your controller logic from your view, and Actions > can be reused outside a web context. JSF is all about the view, and ties > your code in as basically event handlers for your UI. It's kind of like > VB in this sense. Yes, you CAN build reusable and decoupled application > pieces in VB/JSF, but it's not built that way from the start. > > 2. WebWork (1.3) is a shipping, production quality framework. JSF is > probably 3-4 months from being released. WebWork2 is probably 1-2 months > from being generally available. > > 3. JSF will require a whole new way of building web applications. Your > pages won't have any HTML in them, just JSF tags which include other > components, which will render themselves (last time I looked, the > renderers wrote out HTML via out.println() statements... Yuck). > > I think JSF has some interesting ideas. I'm worried about performance in > JSF (a server roundtrip for every radio-button group selection?) and > tieing business logic into your view. I prefer Xwork's completely > web-agnostic command pattern, myself. It's still on my Jira issues to > build a JSF/Xwork bridge, like Craig has for Struts, but that's probably > a ways off. > > Jason > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
