On Mar 15, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Frank W. Zammetti wrote:
Isn't it interesting how polarizing JSF seems to be? I don't know
about
you, but I talk to more people with a strong opinion either way
than most
other technologies. The only other one I can think of in the same
vein is
EJBs. Seems like you either love EJBs or you hate them, and the same
seems, largely, to be true of JSF. There seems to be relatively
few of us
in the middle.
I think it's largely because the JCP moved into a space that was
already well-populated and people tend to be very skeptical of
governing bodies. I think that the simple fact that JSF is a
standard means there's a certain slice of people who will
automatically refuse to accept it. I wonder how different the
response would be if the exact same technology had been developed by
ASF or FSF without the involvement of a standards body. Conversely,
I wonder how different the response to Struts would've been if it had
started out as a JSR.
Developers seem to have the most difficult time with the "not created
here" syndrome. At my last job I was on an architecture team for a
large firm. We inherently held great skepticism for any framework
handed to us that we didn't develop ourselves. And any framework we
developed ourselves seemed to be completely rejected by everyone
else. The portal software I'm working with right now really needs to
be rewritten IMO. The only frameworks that seem to gain widespread
acceptance are those that are developed in an open community rather
than a closed one. Hmm. But there's always politics and egos
involved. I strive to be the developer who can walk into any
framework already in use and get work done without complaining about
how broken everything is. I'm still a long way from achieving that
goal.
Greg
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