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.
Thanks, Sean. That's definitely the intention -- give a taste of what people are really doing, and what's really going on.
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!
Thanks! I think I can speak for the other JSF authors when I say we were hoping to have that effect :-).
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])
Author, JavaServer Faces in Action (http://www.manning.com/mann/index.html)
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