Thank you for the reply. I happened to read that article too. I also have the book the guy wrote. I'll look into the rendering part using XML. It would be better if it's supported out of the box though. Hopefully the next version will address this. I did write a simple struts app before, and JSP seems to be better architecturally, and simpler to use though. The problem I have with it is that you can not programmatically display the view easily. What I mean is that in the JSP page, there is not much way to put your code there. For example, one of my requirement is that depending on a situation, 1 or more tables must be shown. You can see from the article that mixing tag lib and JSF is prohibited in a loop. Also, in a purist sense, data preparation for the display should also stay in the JSP file, not the back bean. This means it has to support programming in there. I can just create another class/bean to do this, but it becomes so many files just do something, and isn't JSP supposed to be the view part? I think it's perfectly ok to put any type of java programming in the view as long as that code only is used for the view, not application logic. Anyway, I will investigate if I can some how satisfy all my requirements with this technology. I was very commited to JSF, until I read the first link you sent me. The fact that it's very recent (august 10) causes me unease with this technology. Since it seems that you did implemented a full app successfully, if you don't mind, could you share your experience and how did your project go? Thanks.
Hiroshi Iwatani wrote:
Oh yes. But ...
V D wrote:
Thank you very much for the link. I also did some work on JSF too, and see its strength and weakness. Unfortunately, the guy doing the evaluation in the link below did not dig deep enough or use any GUI IDE
See links linked from the theserverside page, that is, from the readers responses. Especially, Geary's blog page. The orgiginator guy is rather light and superficial one.
such as the Java Creator or IBM's tool. Some of his points are valid though. I see other problems myself. One of them is the ability to create customized view, component, or renderer. They all involves java objects (which is not easily changable), and very elaborate. To have a render, you have to have a tag file, a tag class, a configuration, and the renderer class. Unbelievable!
Tags are only for JSP presentation. You could use a better presentation technology if you want. See this article: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/06/09/jsf.html
Personally, I feel JSF has saved my life in the Web development sea. It's simple, easy to use, and more effective than Struts et al.
Hiroshi Iwatani wrote:
Yes. See http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=27962
V D wrote:
If so, what is your experience? Is it mature enough for a serious web programming?
Thanks.
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