Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/08/2005 10:19:17 AM: > > On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:00 AM, Garner, Shawn wrote: > > > I don't immediately see the benefits to using Shale over JSF alone. > > I'm sort of a JSF newbie and I've had a hard time seeing the > advantages as well. But I think the light is beginning to flicker > just a bit. One very clear advantage I noted is that you don't have > to do the stupid security-constraint trick to block people from > viewing JSP pages. Shale handles that in a filter (I think). > > Greg
I too am a Shale *and* JSF newbie but one advantage of Shale is the AbstractViewController with features like overriding prerender(), preprocess() etc. I know you can do all this in plain JSF, but it sure is easier to use Shale's prewritten Phaselistener instead. Plus the whole chaining thing is mega cool. All you have to do is implement Command (write an execute method), put it in the chain-config.xml in whatever order you want and bob's your uncle.. I am sure there are many more advantages that I have no clue about, but give me a few thousand years and I'll get there..;) Geeta
