Mark Millman wrote:
The quality of Trinidad it a testament to how Open Source communities work best.
Well, ... I don't really agree, but maybe I am not involved deeply enough in the community to judge. Without wanting to offend anyone personally - it seems to me that * it took forever to negotiate the legals of the first adf faces drop, then it took another eternity until Trinidad 1.0 and again it took a series of minor releases until Trinidad was mostly stable * Oracle employees still do most of the work * many people enjoy working on experimental stuff or whatever else they like, all while bugs that affect basic functionality pile up in Jira * documentation is, hm, let's say minimal. There isn't even some kind of visual index to the components. No small usage example at each component's tag docs. That is even a step backwards from ADF Faces. * Now instead of working on Trinidad 2.0 Oracle decides to do yet another component library. Discussions about the initial drop are undergoing, so we might see a 1.0 release in 2010. By then it will be largely incompatible to the initial drop with all the subtle difference being poorly documented. I like JSF in principle, but it is still lacking a professional, complete, standard compliant and compatible components set. Sorry if I sound harsh, but I recently spent so much time debugging and trying to beat skinning into form, work around incompatibilities between Trinidad and Seam, etc. I ended up writing a couple of custom components for the core functionality. All in all the effort would have been smaller if I just went with JSP from the start.
