Not 100% sure what you mean by a web layer, but I presume that you are
refering to a new web project. I researched Struts, "Plain" JSF,
JSF+Tiles, JSF+Facelets and finally settled on JSF+Facelets+Seam for
my project.
My home project is in development and is working fine. The only
problems I have are when I I am working off of CVS/SVN latest to get
the newest functionality. MyFaces 1.1.1 + Facelets 1.0.10 seems to be
quite stable and my company is using that combination as well.
The biggest issue/hurdle for me to deal with in development on both
JSF as well as struts is that URLs may not be able to be bookmarked by
users, as page validation occurs by posting back to the current URL
before navigating to the new page (which is often done by a servlet
forward and not a browser redirect).
The learning curve on JBoss Seam is pretty steep for
installation/setup, but JSF and facelets are pretty easy to understand
if you are willing to do a bit of reading first (any of the online
tutorials work, including Sun's).
I was really hating JSF before I tried facelets. I don't recommend it.
Tiles just doesn't work from an architectural perspective. Trying to
work with view, subview and verbatim tags is ugly to be nice.
Since pages contain no code like ASP, Perl, PHP, JSP, the pages are
much more maintainable. The business code is nicely tucked away in
Java beans (POJOs). I prefer JSF+Facelets over ASP.NET as well.
ASP.NET has some powerful controls, but the binding is lackluster.
ASP.NET also requires you to have backing code on every page, which
maked it difficult to seperate out page developers from Java/code
developers.
The one thing I haven't heard too much about on these lists is
performance for very large sites (I haven't heard either way - good or
bad).
Hope I answered your question instead of just babbling...
On 2/22/06, Anthony Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Andrew Robinson,
>
> In your words, JSF with Facelet is good to use if start a new project
> in web layer, Isn't it?
> Becuase I am going to have a new project and we want to use something
> new in web Layer. I want to know more about JSF in real project
> whether we can start use it or not.
> Thanks.
>
> On 2/22/06, Andrew Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you want JSF 1.2 and JSTL support I strongly recommend facelets.
> > You can have your own tag handler for JSTL tags that are not yet
> > supported, and there are several already supported. They tag handlers
> > are processed before the JSF components, but other than that item, it
> > is possible to feed EL statements into JSTL tags. For example:
> >
> > <c:choose>
> > <c:when test="#{mybean.myprop}"/>
> > <c:otherwise/>
> > </c:choose>
> >
> > -Andrew
> >
> > FYI - I can't image using JSF without facelets. IMO, JSF is useless
> > without facelets. Sun should make it part of the spec (IMO of course).
> >
> > On 2/22/06, Werner Punz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Anthony Hong schrieb:
> > > > I knew that JSF have something like tableset to render table like view
> > > > easily.
> > > > But sometime I have to write html table by self to offer flexibility.
> > > >
> > > > I saw Facelet to use with JSF as a view, Is it useful?
> > > >
> > > ah one thing, I do not no if there are facelet descriptors for the
> > > jsf:html lib in existence so combining both might become problematic.
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
>
> Anthony Hong
>
