On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Jeff Caddel wrote: > Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:41:23 -0700 > From: Jeff Caddel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [OT] Interesting JSF info > > > >My personal plan will be to do two things as soon as JavaServer Faces goes final. > > > >* Migrate my existing Struts based apps to using JavaServer Faces > > component tags, instead of Struts HTML tags, to take advantage > > of their additional functionality. Fortunately, this can be > > done with basically zero changes to the form beans and actions. > > > > Once JSF is released, will Tiles be considered a phased out technology > similar to how JSTL and Struts-EL replaced the Struts Tag Libraries? >
Not in my book ... JavaServer Faces doesn't have anything quite like it. JavaServer Faces will include some components that do complex layout of their child components (like a list or a grid), but nothing that deals with page layout and templating quite like Tiles does. Of course, by then you'll be able to use components inside your tiles, though ... that's a restriction in the current integration library that there's already a patch posted to fix, but I just haven't had a chance to get to). A second piece of Struts that is definitely still useful even with JavaServer Faces is the validator framework. The Struts approach is more powerful (externalized, client *and* server side) than what is likely to make into JavaServer Faces in 1.0. Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
