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.
Heath, if you do get approval, please send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks!
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])
Author, JavaServer Faces in Action (http://www.manning.com/mann/index.html)
http://www.JSFCentral.com - JavaServer Faces FAQ, news, and info
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