Chuck Hinson wrote:
Interesting. What were the biggest reasons for removing JSF
references/dependencies?
Several really:
* JSF is a full MVC framework and I just wanted a templating engine to
create XML views. I really liked Facelet's syntax vs. Velocity and
Freemarker.
* I prefer to create proper XHTML templates that I can preview in a
browser, not replace every HTML tag with some JSF equivalent. (There's
some caveats to that, since there's still a lot of taglib usage and
often you want to just right one tag and have it expand to a heap of HTML.)
* The JSF component model is stateful. I wouldn't be using Restlets
if I didn't already think that was a bad thing :)
Regards,
Michael.
