Somewhere in the months of learning and reading about JSF, I’ve lost touch with the basic concepts. Could somebody please explain why state for the view needs to be stored to begin with? Could JSF be used in a stateless manner, or is that not how it is meant and designed to be used?
How do alternatives to JSF like Struts, Struts2, and others handle the concept of view state? (I don’t recall them storing view state on the server or serializing it to the rendered HTML, so I’m wondering how they provide similar functionality.) I realize this is a total newbie question, but I hope you can explain in clear and thorough terms the concept of JSF as it relates to other frameworks out there – I can’t conceptualize it easily, even after having played around with it for a little while. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Philosophy-of-JSF-tf3772976.html#a10667738 Sent from the MyFaces - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
