JSF is page centric rather than Action centric. There is no controller as you understand that in Struts with JSF. JSF is for a tool based, dumbed down, approach: JSF is to Struts as Visual Basic is to C++.
On 1/6/06, Rick Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the response, Craig. It's nice to get an answer from THE > authority :-). Questions below... > > On Jan 6, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Craig McClanahan wrote: > > > I'd definitely ignore anything about prereleases of JSF 1.0 ... > > that has > > been out for nearly two years now. A good starting place for > > general JSF > > knowledge and information is <http://jsfcentral.com>. Kito does a > > good job > > of staying on top of the most recent articles and items of > > interest. This, > > by the way, is *exactly* the place to start before looking much at > > Shale > > itself -- Shale *srongly* presumes that you are familiar with JSF, > > and what > > it brings to the table all by itself, because it focuses on adding > > value > > around the edges. Without understanding those edges a little, it's > > harder > > to appreciate the benefits :-). > > Okay, I'll try to find a "hello world" JSF example. That might be > enough for me to build on. > > A question comes up: what has happened to Tiles? Is it no longer a > part of Struts? I'm still terribly unfamiliar with the new Struts > website. > > Do I bother creating a nice Tiles hierarchy of layouts and tiles? Or > is there some other way to get site L&F re-use? > > > Beyond the Shale web site[1], there's not a heck of a lot of stuff > > yet. One > > high level overview is the session I did at ApacheCon (reprised > > from one > > that David Geary and I did at JavaOne)[2] ... but the slides lose a > > little > > in the translation without the corresponding demo program, which is > > not in a > > shape that I'm quite ready to check in yet :-). > > Okay, I'll hold off worrying about Shale for now. Sounds like I can > work it in easily enough when the time comes. > > > Here's my big question: do I still think in terms of Struts Actions > handling the business logic of my application (which they rarely do; > they usually glue to the "real" biz code)? Or do I look to putting > all that glue within JSF controllers? > > Thanks! > > -- > Rick > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~
