On Jan 4, 2008 8:40 PM, Gregg Leichtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I consider this important, since I use Tiles and I want to and currently > am using JSF 1.2, since it resolves the interweaving problem among other > things. Granted, I could potentially move to Clay, but I came from > Struts and I am familiar with Tiles and it does what I need it to do, > especially the latest version. IHMO the current state of Tiles support > in MyFaces and Shale acts as a barrier to Tiles adoption under JSF 1.2 > which I hope is not intentional.
My original intent was to invest effort in getting Tiles to work better with JSF. Then I discovered Facelets and decided my efforts would be largely redundant. I haven't used Clay yet, though I didn't ignore it intentionally, but to me, Facelets does for JSF what Tiles originally did for Struts. That is, it provides an extremely easy-to-use templating and page-building system. Once I got used to Facelets JSP in JSF felt like driving a 1973 Plymouth that gets about 4 mpg gas mileage :-) I do think Tiles could do a lot for JSP in JSF with some TLC, but, again, the work just seems redundant to me. The effort to migrate from Struts-Tiles to Tiles 2 is about the same as learning Facelets. I still love Tiles and I think it has a good future, but the low-hanging fruit has been harvested IMO. Greg
