To elaborate on what some of others have said ... JSF helps to standardize things that you were probably already doing anyways. Think of when you started to use Struts. We all had our own set of J2EE patterns cobbled together in our own similiar but non-standard way.
JSF migration can be time consuming though. IMO there is a pretty steep learning curve (but well worth the time and effort in the end.) There are all sorts of hacks and add-ons we had to Struts that we need to migrate and that takes time sorting that all out. But in the end, you will be doing things in an industry standard way. Right now we are migrating our dialogs to use the new Shale dialog stuff. We had our own custom solution but the Shale variation is even nicer (and again a standard.) Check out Kito's website (he's the author of your book btw). He has an "in the trenches" feature that describes successful migrations ... http://jsfcentral.com/trenches/ sean On 7/20/05, Dennis Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know a few folks that walked into the meeting and really > bored managers with MVC. Do what I did ... show them screens > with fancy controls. Make them understand that they will be > seeing richer clients with pretty colors. > > ---- Original message ---- > >Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:49:59 -0400 > >From: "Lindholm, Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Justification to switch to JSF from Struts? > >To: <[email protected]> > > > >I've been using Struts for a while and have just started > learning JSF. > >I'm reading "Java Server Faces In Action" right now and > have "Core Java > >Server Faces" sitting on my desk. > > > >I'm liking what I'm seeing and seriously considering using > JSF/MyFaces > >for my next project. However, I need to be able to justify > a technology > >change to my manager (and to myself). There is a non- > trivial cost > >whenever you switch to a new technology. (Learning, > testing, developing > >methodolgies, training others, etc.) > > > >I'm looking for reasons to justify a switch to JSF from > Struts. > > > >I started to prepare a list of "short-coming" with Struts > from my own > >experience. > >The JSF designers must already have this list. Where can I > find it? > > > >I guessing this is a popular topic but I've search and not > been able to > >find a consise list yet. > > > >TIA > > > >Greg > > > > > Dennis Byrne >
