Thanks Craig, that was helpful to understand. sandeep
-----Original Message----- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 3:13 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: newbie struts-el best practices question Takhar, Sandeep wrote: >Where does Struts-Faces fit into this picture? > > To answer this, it's helpful to understand the core value that JSF brings to the table ... the ability for the world to provide a rich set of UI components, and the ability to use components from different libraries in the same application (because they all conform to the standard component APIs defined by JSF). So, from a Struts perspective, there are two particular use cases where the struts-faces integration library becomes useful: * You have an existing Struts based application, and want to update the UI to leverage JSF components. The struts-faces library enables you to migrate your pages, one page at a time, to use JSF on the pages you need it -- all without modifying the existing back end code. * You want to create a new Struts based application, but need Struts specific features like Tiles or the Validator framework. It is quite feasible to build new pages from scratch using the JSF components, and build the back end with Struts the way you would with the pure Struts HTML tags. If you're starting a new application, and don't need Tiles or Validator, you should evaluate whether JSF by itself provides enough functionality by itself (if it does, using fewer different packages means less to learn) ... but there's nothing wrong with using them together. >It is getting quite complicated to make decisions now. > > Yep. But I'd rather have too many choices than too few :-). >sandeep > Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
