rofl! Reckon Im gonna be forwarding that link a fair bit. Nice :-)
-----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vic Cekvenich Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 22:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: JavaServer Face There is also a digram to help you get the picture: http://www.theserverside.com/cartoons/TalesFromTheServerSide.tss .V Mark Lowe wrote: > There was a long thread on the developers list last week where the > question of whether JSF would replace struts was discussed. > > The basic conclusions of those taking part in the discussion what that > struts was originally designed to fill a gap in the servlet api, and > that the role of struts and open source projects in general are often to > fill these gaps without the rigid and slower process of JSR. > > Check the dev list mail archives for "struts JSR" and read the thread. > > Mark > On 31 Mar 2004, at 11:00, Xuemin Guan wrote: > >> Hi, All, I know this is a bit off topic. But really want to >> get an opinion about it from the Struts users. >> >> The JavaServer Face 1.0, or JSF, has been released. It claims to >> be a framework for building web-based user interfaces in Java. >> Like Swing, it provides a set of standard widgets (buttons, >> hyperlinks, checkboxes, and so on). What I want to know is, can >> JSF truly facilitate constructing a highly complex >> user interface just like Swing does? If it can't, is Applet still the way >> to go(don't hear much about it these days. Is Applet dead? Is there >> an alternative to Applet when it comes to constructing a web >> browser-accessed highly complex GUI?) Given the fact that Struts already >> provides many features JavaServer Face provides(such as validation, >> internalization, and tags for constructing UI widgets etc), what's >> the significant benefit to gain by adopting JSF? or combining them?(I >> heard >> this >> is possible, and someone says it would be a powerful combination.) And >> the >> final question is will the JSF replace Struts in the future? >> >> Any comment is welcome. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Xuemin >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]