I'm going to talk with my leads and see if we can write something up about our successes with JSF.
I really wish this wasn't a private project. I guess its just natural to want to show off what you've done with your life for the past 9 months. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:31:37 -0500, Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nice article Kito. I love the concept of the series as well. I think > its great to promote real world JSF success stories - well hopefully > they will all be success stories ;-) Its also interesting to read > about some of the issues that come up for various projects, how they > solved them and most importantly, their reasoning behind their > decisions. > > sean > > ps. I'm almost finished your excellent book. There are now several > great JSF books out there. That should help move JSF along too! > > > On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:45:39 -0500, Kito D. Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the Trenches is a new JSF Central series about real world projects that > > use JavaServer Faces. The latest article looks at how Global Apparel Network > > BV migrated an existing application from Struts and Hibernate to JSF, JDO, > > and Magnolia. They have since standardized on JSF as the corner stone of > > their new web development projects. > > > > Excerpt: > > > > Senior Developer Dave Sag and his team at Global Apparel Network BV decided > > to get their feet wet with JavaServer Faces (JSF) by migrating an internal > > customer support tool from Struts. "We wanted a small and simple, real > > project to prototype JSF, having worked with Struts for years and built > > v1.0...with Struts. We migrated from Hibernate to JDO (Java Data Objects) at > > the same time, so that was interesting too." Instead of migrating from > > Struts incrementally using the Struts-Faces integration library, the team > > chose to migrate the whole application at once. Even though Sag believes > > there are a few things Struts makes easier, overall he found JSF to be > > simpler and more robust. The main mental hurdle for the team was thinking in > > terms of JSF events instead of Struts Actions. > > > > For the full story, see: > > http://www.jsfcentral.com/trenches/trenches_2.html. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Kito D. Mann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Virtua, Inc. (phone: 203-323-1244 fax: 203-323-2363) > > Author, JavaServer Faces in Action (http://www.manning.com/mann/index.html) > > http://www.JSFCentral.com - JavaServer Faces FAQ, news, and info > > > > "Existence doesn't necessarily mean living..." > -- -Heath Borders-Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
