I've used RichFaces and IceFaces for this with some good results. They're not too hard to learn, and both have visual design options. However, RichFaces visual design was on Eclipse and I consider their JSF designer to be horrible (it doesn't even try to be WYSIWYG) while the Netbeans designer is much better but I had lots of trouble using it and IceFaces.
Also, and maybe somebody from the Netbeans team can clarify, I was told at JavaOne (but somebody from IceFaces) that Netbeans is deprecating/discontinuing the JSF visual designer. On Jul 29, 8:42 am, Dan Shaya <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Java Posse et all, > > I'm basically a server guy with Swing experience but my new project > requires me to build a really cool, slick, web dashboard - with lots > of AJAX enabled components. I need to include good looking sortable > tables, pie charts and line charts (with click thu facility), tree > controls etc. > > Ideally I would do it in java fx but am not convinced there is the > toolkit for my needs. GWIT, I think has the same issues. Should I be > looking at JSF - is there a really cool toolkit (open source or > commercial) that would give me the widgets I need? > > Or should I be using Flex or ASP (there seem to be a lot of cool > widgets for ASP) or something completely different. > > A GUI builder would be fantastic - anything to make the development > easier. > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated, especially if from someone > who has build this sort of web application before. > > Thanks > > Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
