On 9/6/05, Walton, Kaleb (ISS Southfield) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all, > > As I had mentioned in a previous post, our team is looking to move > towards a more well defined web framework. From my limited experience > using Shale (ran the shale-use-cases) I'm not feeling very confident > that we could use it *right away*. > > I wanted to ask for opinions on what would be a gradual step for us to > take towards the Shale framework (once it's stable enough to use in a > production environment). For example, would JSF + Spring be a good combo > that would make for an easy transition to Shale? Struts + WebFlow + > Spring? Etc.. > > Do the aforementioned framework combinations even matter? Will Shale > just add another layer on top or glue together with what we would have > already developed? Although I've been reading up on Shale quite a bit, > my understanding is still limited so please excuse me if these questions > are easily found through already documented sources. If they are, please > share where they can be found :)
The key to choosing a transition approach is what you want to use for the "front controller" part of your architecture durng the interim. If you're starting from Struts, a straightforward path would be to use the integration library to start switching your pages to using JSF components instead of Struts HTML tags (without having to modify your actions), followed by a migration of the back-end logic to using JSF's front controller and request processing lifecycle. If, on the other hand, you decide to commit to JSF's controller early rather than late, you might as well just use Shale along with it from the beginning. Unlike the way that other frameworks deal with JSF, Shale *assumes* you will be using the JSF controller architecture, and it just adds ease of use around problems you'll face anyway. It doesn't try to treat JSF as purely a component architecture. Craig McClanahan Regards, > Kaleb > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
