I don't think JSF is polarizing. I think that the way it has been pushed into areas it does not belong is polarizing. There is absolutely nothing wrong with JSF, in my opinion, but there is something wrong with the way its advocates have strong-armed and misled people. That's what I have disliked.
On 3/15/06, Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 15, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > > > Isn't it interesting how polarizing JSF seems to be? I don't know > > about > > you, but I talk to more people with a strong opinion either way > > than most > > other technologies. The only other one I can think of in the same > > vein is > > EJBs. Seems like you either love EJBs or you hate them, and the same > > seems, largely, to be true of JSF. There seems to be relatively > > few of us > > in the middle. > > I think it's largely because the JCP moved into a space that was > already well-populated and people tend to be very skeptical of > governing bodies. I think that the simple fact that JSF is a > standard means there's a certain slice of people who will > automatically refuse to accept it. I wonder how different the > response would be if the exact same technology had been developed by > ASF or FSF without the involvement of a standards body. Conversely, > I wonder how different the response to Struts would've been if it had > started out as a JSR. > > Developers seem to have the most difficult time with the "not created > here" syndrome. At my last job I was on an architecture team for a > large firm. We inherently held great skepticism for any framework > handed to us that we didn't develop ourselves. And any framework we > developed ourselves seemed to be completely rejected by everyone > else. The portal software I'm working with right now really needs to > be rewritten IMO. The only frameworks that seem to gain widespread > acceptance are those that are developed in an open community rather > than a closed one. Hmm. But there's always politics and egos > involved. I strive to be the developer who can walk into any > framework already in use and get work done without complaining about > how broken everything is. I'm still a long way from achieving that > goal. > > Greg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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~
