Like so many others I have been searching the web for a good
templating/rendering engine, and have read about several competing
technologies including, Tapestry, Clay, and Facelets. Choosing one of
theese technologies is hard, I think, but of course the choice would be
much simpler if the MyFaces developers chose to integrate one of these
technologies into MyFaces. For what I have read, none of the
technologies have a very plug-and-play feel in combination with MyFaces.
As an example, if you want to use Facelets, you need to manually tie
Facelets to Tomahawk using some additional xml code to take advantage of
the MyFaces Tomahawk components - this is of course something which
could work out of the box, had Facelets been an integrated part of MyFaces.
Then, in the mailing list archives I came accross some e-mails which
indicated that Facelets might become a standard, integrated part of
MyFaces. I find that very interesting. I cannot say whether Tapestry,
Clay, or Facelets would be the right choice, but from a MyFaces user's
perspective it would make a great difference if at least one of these
technologies where supported out of the box.
Could anyone share their thoughts about this?
Randahl
