On 10/4/07, Michael Terrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > Sounds reasonable.
> * 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.) > As does this. > * The JSF component model is stateful. I wouldn't be using Restlets > if I didn't already think that was a bad thing :) > I thought I read that you could configure facelets (or maybe it was myfaces) to do client-side state saving; wouldn't that take care of the state issue, or is there something else going on besides that? Mind you, I'm just starting to look into facelets. My main attraction initially is that it doesnt require a servlet container (which makes testing a whole lot easier). --Chuck
