Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-12 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 1/12/06, Alexandre Poitras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/12/06, Werner Punz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alexandre Poitras wrote: > > > I agree with you Michael since our designer is a big fan of Zen Garden > > > and I must say I don't miss working with tables :) I would like a > > > str

Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-12 Thread Alexandre Poitras
On 1/12/06, Werner Punz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexandre Poitras wrote: > > I agree with you Michael since our designer is a big fan of Zen Garden > > and I must say I don't miss working with tables :) I would like a > > strict XHTML rendererkit but I must say that at least the JSF standard >

Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-12 Thread Werner Punz
Alexandre Poitras wrote: I agree with you Michael since our designer is a big fan of Zen Garden and I must say I don't miss working with tables :) I would like a strict XHTML rendererkit but I must say that at least the JSF standard components don't produce garbage . What I am doing right now is

Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-12 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 1/12/06, Werner Punz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rick Reumann schrieb: > > > Please don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-JSF - I really like a LOT of it. > > I just wish there was some kind of effort to bring a lot of this > > together into one 'framework' - I know this goes against a lot of the

Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-12 Thread Werner Punz
Rick Reumann schrieb: > Please don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-JSF - I really like a LOT of it. > I just wish there was some kind of effort to bring a lot of this > together into one 'framework' - I know this goes against a lot of the > open source thinking, but if Shale is that useful, which I b

Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-12 Thread Werner Punz
I am also in a hurry so I will answer more extensively later... just to your problem now Rick Reumann schrieb: > > Sort off-topic but what do you use in JSF to create a display of List > data from a managedBean? I believe I was told to use DataTable and > that's what I used in my lesson, but I t

Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-11 Thread Alexandre Poitras
I agree with you Michael since our designer is a big fan of Zen Garden and I must say I don't miss working with tables :) I would like a strict XHTML rendererkit but I must say that at least the JSF standard components don't produce garbage . What I am doing right now is developping new renderers f

Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-11 Thread Craig McClanahan
Thanks for your comments ... I'll try to give you answers based on that below. On 1/11/06, Angel Navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Craig, > > thanks for you reply. > > > For the purposes of this reply, I'm going to assume by your use of the > term > > "Struts" that you mean the existing

Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-11 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
That may be true, but my point is that I hear a lot of developers asking "why is JSF better?", and my contention is that very few, if any, examples that exists today really provides that answer. Craig mentioned MailReader as the cannonical application around these parts, and I just said that M

Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-11 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Mailreader is for developers, not for people from marketing department. It is not supposed to be beautiful, it is supposed to show how common tasks are done with Struts: data in, processing, data out. How it is presented is not that important. I mean it is important that a framework can generate li

Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-11 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I would agree, except for the fact that MailReader is not by any measure an impressive application (sufficient yes, but not impressive)... in the context of JSF (and Shale), where at least part of the point is to enable easily building more advanced types of applications (that *IS* part of the

Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-11 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 1/11/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My major complaint is that every single example and tutorial I've found is > so simplistic and frankly ugly as hell that it can't help but cast JSF in > a bad light Sure sounds a lot like a canonical example program that's been around

Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-11 Thread Alexandre Poitras
On 1/11/06, Rick Reumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately I have to run out to do some things this afternoon, and > can't reply in as much detail as I'd like to the below, but I'll quickly > comment... > > Werner Punz wrote the following on 1/11/2006 10:51 AM: > > Hi Rick the confusion

Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-11 Thread Rick Reumann
Unfortunately I have to run out to do some things this afternoon, and can't reply in as much detail as I'd like to the below, but I'll quickly comment... Werner Punz wrote the following on 1/11/2006 10:51 AM: Hi Rick the confusion you are talking about, is basically the same you have by jumpin

Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-11 Thread Werner Punz
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > > String var = > (String)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequestParameterMap().get("variableName"); > A yes the lovely Request Factory->context...-> cascade I personally always use either ioc for managed beans or some utils classes (there i

Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-11 Thread Werner Punz
Hi Rick the confusion you are talking about, is basically the same you have by jumping onto any framework. Mind you that I had to move from JSF to Struts for a project a while ago, and I had the same feeling backwards ;-) A very good entry point into jsf is: www.jsftutorials.net/ But as is I can

Re: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-11 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Wed, January 11, 2006 10:06 am, Rick Reumann said: > Anyway, I'm totally babbling now, but am I the only one that feels this > confusion? It's more confusing when you try to think of how you can use > these different technologies together (ie Shale and MyFaces). You are most definitely NOT alon

RE: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-11 Thread Brantley Hobbs
--snip-- > Try to pretend you just know a little about the buzz words.. JSF and > Shale. Now start googling to try to understand JSF. The Sun site I think > is pretty poorly organized. This article --snip-- > > I guess what I'm getting at is there really should be a simple page that > dumbs dow

[OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-11 Thread Rick Reumann
Craig McClanahan wrote the following on 1/10/2006 7:37 PM: Not really. Shale is a completely separate framework that leverages the fact that JSF already provides a controller servlet, plus support for navigation and other simiklar things. It shares no code with the Struts 1.xcontroller framewo

Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-11 Thread Angel Navarro
Hi Craig, thanks for you reply. > For the purposes of this reply, I'm going to assume by your use of the term > "Struts" that you mean the existing Struts 1.1 or 1.2 (or the upcoming 1.3 ) > framework, correct? Yes, I know Struts 1.1 or 1.2 and in other project, I used Struts 1.1. > If you are

Re: Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-10 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 1/10/06, Angel Navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have to take a difficult decision. > > I have to develop a new web application and I think that I have to use > JSF, > but I also think that I have use Struts as Controller. For the purposes of this reply, I'm going to assume by y

Need advice between Shale or Struts-Faces

2006-01-10 Thread Angel Navarro
Hi, I have to take a difficult decision. I have to develop a new web application and I think that I have to use JSF, but I also think that I have use Struts as Controller. The web application that I have to develop it's a medium, big application. The two alternatives are Shale or Struts-faces,