FYI, JSF Central has started a new series about Facelets on JSF Central. Jacob takes you inside his project, which is an alternative to JSP for creating JSF views. The first article provides a quick introduction to Facelets. Here's an excerpt:
"The web community is eagerly seeking a framework like Tapestry, backed by JavaServer Faces as the industry standard. While JavaServer Faces and JSP are meant to be aligned, Facelets steps outside of the JSP specification and provides a highly performant, JSF-centric view technology. Anyone who has created a JSP page will be able to do the same with Facelets and familiar XML-tag use. The difference is under the hood where all the burden of the JSP vendor API is removed to greatly enhance JSF as a platform and provide easy plug-and-go development without requiring JSP tag development. JavaServer Faces UIComponents are first class citizens within Facelets; there's no need to develop extra objects to integrate. There's also no need to learn yet another XML schema to define your views." View the entire article at: http://www.javaserverfaces.info/articles/facelets_1.html. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kito D. Mann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Principal Consultant, Virtua, Inc. (http://www.virtua.com) Author, JavaServer Faces in Action http://www.JSFCentral.com - JavaServer Faces FAQ, news, and info "Existence doesn't necessarily mean living..."
