Andrew Robinson schrieb: > This is not a direct answer, but wanted to also let you know there is a > decision between shale and jboss-seam. Both have more robust dialog > support than JSF and both implement a higher level of IoC (inversion of > control) to be able to "surround" your functionality. Shale has a nice > page view controller, and JBoss-Seam has a nice interceptor/factory > pattern. It becomes one of those tired debates of which Java frameworks > you want to combine on the server. > > From the list, I have a feeling most people choose one of the following > when selecting frameworks to combine: > > * MyFaces + Facelets + JBoss-Seam > * MyFaces + Shale + Clay > Well it looks more like MyFaces+Shale+Facelets, facelets have become tremendously popular.
> Some people also try the the JSF/Tiles integration, but I found it > severly flawed and facelets is incomparably better than Tiles, Well well tiles, has its problems, always had, facelets have learned a good lesson from Tapestry. As for Seam, lets say it that way, Seam probably is a no brainer if you go with jboss anyway and JDK 5.0, I personally found the seam startup times in tomcat embedded mode somewhat long (20 secs, still bareable but not fast enough to be a nice dev environment) but besides that Seam shows huge promise, if you can go the Java5 route. As for shale it adds some interesting stuff and fixes some holes in the spec, I have not done anything with it, but it looks promising, especially the view controller fills a huge gap of the specs (defined construction and destruction callbacks of a bean) As for shale, I have not done anything with it
