On 1/13/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/12/06, David G. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Since no one else has answered, I'll give this a try: > > > > JSF is the base for everything you asked about. Only AFTER you are > > comfortable with JSF implementation (the Sun JSF RI > > or the MyFaces runtime) would I recommend you try Facelets, Shale or > both. > > > > Facelets and Shale bring extra functionality on top of a JSF > > implementation that each project's authors felt were > > missing from JSF v1.1. Facelets brings a view definition tool, > templating > > and tile-like functionality to JSF. Shale > > brings many pieces to JSF such as Dialogs/Workflows, Tokens, Variable > > resolvers, extra functions to the view controller > > a test framework, etc. One optional component of Shale is called Clay > > which is functionally very similar to Facelets. > > However, I have heard of people using Shale with Facelets instead of > Clay > > and who have almost everything working > > normally. > > > > For more information, check out: > > > > Sun JSF RI: http://java.sun.com/j2ee/javaserverfaces/ > > MyFaces JSF RI: http://myfaces.apache.org > > Shale: http://struts.apache.org/shale > > Facelets: https://facelets.dev.java.net/ > > > > *** Tutorials and other learning resources: > > http://www.jsftutorials.net/ > > http://www.jsfcentral.com/ > > > > Regards, > > David > > > "What David said" -- he's got it right. > > Craig McClanahan > > Thanks, Craig and David. I wonder, if it woud be possible (of course, it is desirable) to calculate the orthogonality of the frameworks from first principles.
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