Cabbar Duzayak wrote: > Hi, > > I have been considering using MyFaces for a site that I am working on. > Although it looks promising, I am not sure about its performance and > stability. Has any of you used myfaces for a live site? Can you please > share your experience in regards to performance, stability and > scalability? Are there too many bugs/errors/etc? Basically, is it > reasonable to use myfaces for production, or should I wait for a while > more before it proves itself? > > Thanks... > Given, that it is not a huge installation, I have been using MyFaces 1.0.9 for an intranet installation with around 40 users doing work constantly (it sort of was an address collection system where people had to add contacts manually for legal reasons)
1.0.9 had its fair number of bugs, but no showstoppers, given that the 1.1.1 release has fixed most if not all of which I have encountered, it would have been easier. Performance problems were exactly zero on the system, the app server never spiked higher than 1-2%. The main problem you might face is the automatic usage of http post, javascripts for command link (which you can bypass by using commandButton) and that ajax is sort of problematic once you hit the jsf backend and have to do some dom/jsf component tree sync. If none of that is an issue, go for it. The code compared to plain html on the frontend side is much compacter (I currently migrate legacy code to jsf, and at the header of my layout I yesterday got a code reduction from 200 locs down to 20) and the backend component tree gives a huge flexibility you wont get in other frameworks or pure html that easily. (I recently wrote some security code which automatically hides components on the fly, it basically was a loop over the component tree with a sync into a security matrix, none of that was in the jsp itself and the core loop was 4 lines of code)
