Zied Hamdi schrieb: > At the beginng of the JSF specification (2002 I think) I thought JSF > will replace all platforms: I though it will be compiled to swing, JSPs, > SVG and all we will have to do is write a sort of XML that will be > transformed to these formats, then we will have bundles of css and other
Well JSF has enough abstraction to acomplish that task (to some degree for now), but so do many other frameworks, it all comes down to the task to write the proper renderers. Since most development currently is done in the html domain most components are developed for html only. You can see the power of the higher abstraction in component implementations for WML, or Renderers for PDF some people have written or even the neat VT220/Jabber demo the Oracle guys love to show at conferences. Mostly for now JSF is a mechanism for server side user interfaces, so it spans naturally into server side rendered uis easiest (Which is html, VT220, Instant messaging etc...) Client side rendering is doable, but every connector into real client side uis has to provide a lot of infrastructure and server callback paths. JSF 2.0 will adress many of those issues, I hope they can pull it off decently.
