Hi All, First of all, congratulations for the Magnolia 3.0 release! I've been following Magnolia since 2.0, and I am glad to say that I found it intuitive to use and build.
I have a question, or suggestion of a web framework to look at in future version of Magnolia (version 3,5?). This is something that probably have already been discussed, and looking at the Jira entry the conclusion to use JSF has been decided. Considering this, I hope no one will be too offended my suggestion. I don't know whether the work on refactoring Magnolia w/ JSF+Facelets has started, but I'd like to recommend the Magnolia developers to at least take a quick look at Webwork. Here are the reasons why: 1. Webwork is simple to work with and simple to understand 2. It has built in support for integration with Spring 3. Comes with built in support for JSR-168 portlet http://wiki.opensymphony.com/display/WW/Portlet+Tutorial http://wiki.opensymphony.com/display/WW/Portlet+Configuration 4. There is merger between Webwork and Struts Action 2 project - hence if Struts Action 2 becomes the de-facto standard, Webwork will become the de-facto standard as well. 5. It has integration with JSF (http://jroller.com/page/mrdon?entry=unification_struts_action_and_jsf). I know this is in the early still early stage, but the integration has been done by Mr. Don Brown who is one of the committer in Struts Action 2 project. I have worked with MyFaces JSF on top of JSP before, but I have never deployed something into production with JSF. I am by no means expert, but I can tell that with JSF the XML configuration becomes too verbose and unwieldy very quickly. The integration will solve this problem. There is also tons of other good reasons: 1. It comes with a good set of HTML form taglib with AJAX support included 2. Supports various View: JSP, Velocity, Freemarker, JSF, JasperReports (PDF and XLS) There! I've said a lot. Hopefully I've raised some curiosity at least :) Cheers, Felix ___________________________________________________________ Inbox full of spam? Get leading spam protection and 1GB storage with All New Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- for list details see http://www.magnolia.info/en/magnolia/developer.html ----------------------------------------------------------------
