Hi All,
I have had an email exchange with Matthias about JSF, MyFaces and ADF Faces and what level of design time support faces component authors would, or could, expect from tools vendors such as (in my case) Oracle's JDeveloper.
A couple of months back we (the Oracle ADF Faces team) posted a proposal for design-time metadata for JSF at the JSFCentral website (http://www.jsfcentral.com/articles/oracle_metadata_proposal.html).
Matthias thought it would be a good idea if I sent an email to this mailing list asking for feedback on the proposal.
One of the concerns that we have is the lack of information provided by the JSF spec that defines what syntax to use for associating additional metadata with faces components. This lack of information can force tools vendors to come up with their own syntax to support additional metadata for custom components, which would force component authors to have to deal with different solutions for different IDEs. If there is a standard in this area, component authors would be able to provide metadata in one format that will work in all tools, and the end user will be in the ideal situation of being able to pick the tool they want to use independently from the component set that best meets their needs.
The goal would be to have a good and productive discussion about this topic/proposal and try to come up with a solution that all parties involved (component authors, tools vendors etc...) could agree upon, and then put it in front of the EG as a proposal from the community to enhance JSF. As one of the leading JSF organizations comments and contributions from MyFaces to this proposal are greatly appreciated.
Matthias please feel free to correct me if I interpret your email incorrectly.
Best Regards, Jonas
------------------------------------------------- Jonas Jacobi Oracle JDeveloper - JSF & ADF Faces Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores 94065 California, US http://www.orablogs.com/jjacobi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
