> 1- Do we have to use JSP or Portlets just because we wan to to use them, or > we just need to provide good looking dynamic WebAdmin for OpenEJB, we > started to think of the technology before we see what we really need Thats a good one ;) . I think of it is "there is already something available which can allow you to do a lot more and a lot faster ". So JSF gives me the ability to build GUI rapidly, which is what we need for WebAdming (GUI). Portlets give me layout and common look and feel capabilities and other stuff. Allows me to "drop in" functionality at the correct location without affecting anything else on the page. Something like "Oh, I wish I could configure xyz on the server through web admin, or I wish I could customize the way i look at log files through webadmin" could be created and plugged in independently by a developer. This also allows somebody who just wants to add functionality on their own instance of web admin in a standard way. For example, if i created a cool portlet for my web admin, I can easily plugin into webadmin without knowing anything about the current webadmin framework. Later I realize that my portlet could be useful for the community as a whole, I can simply submit the code to OpenEJB and we can drop it into web admin. > > 2- If we really need to use any of these technologies, we can search for > smaller Engines which provide the main functionality, I think, For JSP support we could use Jasper to compile jsp's
> sure - of Jetty, and we can provide OpenEJB we Jetty only to serve the > WebAdmin, or we can do as Karan suggested before to have OpenEJB distro > already bundled with Tomcat and/or Jetty . Yes, ship the standalone version without webadmin and tomcat version would have webadmin. People can pick and choose the distro depending on what features they need > > On 8/30/07, Jacek Laskowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 8/27/07, David Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is it possible to support JSF without a full servlet container, jsp > > > enginge, and tag libs support? > > > > I don't think so. JSF is layered atop JSP so although you might think > > of JSF with no servlet container (plus JSP) there's no JSF > > implementation I can think of that would run in a servlet container > > with no jsp engine. I'd like to hear I'm mistaken though. It'd be > > great to have a JSF console for openejb. I like the idea. > > > > Jacek > > > > -- > > Jacek Laskowski > > http://www.JacekLaskowski.pl > > > > > > -- > Thanks > - Mohammad Nour > -- Karan Singh Malhi
