I have been doing some reading recently on JSF and I have a few comments and questions.
At first I thought JSF would focus mostly on the "V" in MVC. But after doing some reading on this, it seems like JSF really provides the "M" and "C" as well. Is this accurate? It seems possible to combine the view of JSF with the Struts controller (and apparently this is what the integration package is about.) Most of the discussion about combining the two revolves around migration from existing Struts projects to JSF. Other than migration purposes, what is the point in using both? I like Tiles and plan to continue to use it, but I consider Tiles to be only a small part of Struts. Most of the familiar Struts entities seem to be covered by JSF and I am not sure why it would make sense to keep using Struts if there are features in JSF that are appealing to you. Of course you could use Struts for validation but is it really worth dealing with two frameworks just because you like Struts validation better than JSF validation? My point in asking these questions is that I am trying decide the direction our current Struts applications should take. I am very happy with Struts but worry that over the long run, the focus will be on JSF and our applications will miss out on some of the developments there. Finally, is the ComposableRequestProcessor in struts-chain going to deal with JSF eventually? Will this make it even easier to combine the two? TIA for you comments and suggestions, sean
