Our project started off using Suns Creator which is JSF-RI + a few additional components. We quickly found the MyFaces + Tomahawk provides a much better option and moved our entire project suite (6 apps) over to it. I purposfully stayed away from ADF when making a choice as it still belonged to Oracle and after spending 4 years banging against stupid Oracle bugs in my previous company, I just didn't trust their quality control (I'm glad to see its now open source). We did look at Tobago but didn't want to replace the view controller and it seemed to have a small developer group.
Here are a couple of key points to consider when making a selection: [1] the learning curve is pretty steep in all JSF implementations and, in some cases, the richer the component choice, the more learning needs to be done and the less documentation is generally available. [2] user-group support is *very* important. Both MyFaces and Sun have large user bases and active user lists but perhaps its worth while spending a few minutes browsing through the forums to get a feel for (a) the type of problems user experience, (b) how helpful (and fast) is the user community in reponding to questions, and (c) how reactive is the development team to addressing Azissues? My money is firmly on MyFaces -- great support, great components and a great product. -----Original Message----- From: Cosma Colanicchia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6:15 AM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: Re: JSF-RI, ADF, MyFaces, Facelets. I'm lost. They are not concurrents. MyFaces provides a JSF implementation (as the Sun RI does), while ADF Faces/Trinidad is a library of components with some added services. If you are talking about "MyFaces Tomahawk" , then yes, there is some overlap with Trinidad, but they are probably going to be merged in future. Right now, you will have some troubles only using both Tomahawk and Trinidad. For example Tomahawk components will not be aware of Trinidad skinning system and of its client validation framework. I think that it is better to choose one of the two until they'll be merged or refactored to work well togheter. Regards Cosma 2006/7/19, Cyrille37 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ::SammyRulez:: a écrit : > > my choices > > > > myfaces + tomahawk component: all the gui you need > > facelets: decouple design and component > > ajaxanywhere: add some exotic behaviour non breaking jsf cycle > Thank you very much for your comment. > > What about MyFaces and ADF ? They seem concurents, isn't it ? Why we > should one or other ? > > cyrille. > > > Application Framework... I really don't need them.. I sense that > > good design ad c couple of utility classes ca do anything you > > need... IMHO > > > > 2006/7/19, Cyrille37 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hello, > >> > >> There are few projects around JSF that make me lost. I've to make a > >> choice to start the study of a future project, it's time for me to > >> select technologies. > >> > >> At first, I've to choice a Application Framework. Choices are > >> Spring, Tapestry. > >> Then a GUI Framework. Here is my problem, JSF is in spotlight so > >> looks to be a good choice, but there are several projects and I > >> could not make my choice. > >> > >> Have you got an opinion which could light me ?? > >> Thanks you very much. > >> cyrille. > >> > > > > > > >
