Hello all, I'm in the unlucky situation that I have to give up working with my favourite Web Framework - Apple's WebObjects - in favor to something that is more J2EE-homed and more open source (seems that WO will be this too at some time, but even then - no chance) and more portal-ready.
Perhaps I will be forced to use JSF, but if I have some good arguments, perhaps there is a small chance to push some other framework - Tapestry, for example. I've experimented a little with JSF and was totally disappointed. The main things I missed comparing to my previous-millennium-framework were: - working iterators, especially with a dynamic number of input fields and buttons in the iterator body - object oriented developing - component oriented developing "Object oriented developing" means: imagine a list of objects I want to display in a list box. I want to write a method which extracts a displayable string, but that's already all. I think it's the framework's problem to generate HTML-able VALUE-Strings and to convert those strings back to objects. My previous millennium framework had absolutely no problem doing this for me - it simply numbered the elements and the only thing I had to do is to make sure that the Collection of objects was the same at the beginning of the next action request. Frustrated like this I had a look at Tapestry, which was invented in memory of WebObjects. Most of my JSF-problems seem to have a Tapestry-solution, that's fine. But, oh no, what is this "ValueEncoder"-thing??? Don't say it is what I'm afraid of it might be ... Any comments? Regards, Marcus. _____________________________________________________________________ prosystems IT GmbH Anwendungsentwicklung Postfach 31 51 53021 Bonn (Germany) Tel: 0228 / 3366 - 3329, Fax: 0228 / 3366 - 73329 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.prosystemsIT.de Amtsgericht Bonn - HR B 13189 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Vassilios Timiliotis, Richard Adams Der Austausch von Nachrichten mit der prosystems IT GmbH via E-Mail dient ausschliesslich Informationszwecken. Rechtsgeschaeftliche Erklaerungen duerfen ueber dieses Medium nicht ausgetauscht werden. Verfaelschungen des urspruenglichen Inhaltes dieser Nachricht bei der Datenuebertragung koennen nicht ausgeschlossen werden. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
