When people say that something is hard or, on reverse, easy, it is always subjective and basically says nothing. Hard or easy compared to what?
The important thing is that in JSF, to create a component, one should be pretty well familiar with the guts of the framework. As this article shows, such an adventure will involve registering component with faces-config.xml, implementing a renderer, encoding, decoding stuff, creating a custom tag... All this might be easy compared to something, but it is infinitely harder than creating a similar functionality in T5. Again, this is relative to which component is created. There probably can be a component, creation of which in Tapestry will be as hard as it is in JSF, but in general, in Tapestry you do not need to know much more for crearing custom components than for creating ordinary pages, and that makes a huge difference. -----Original Message----- From: Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 September 2007 05:24 To: Tapestry users Subject: Tapestry vs JSF: JSF for nonbelievers: JSF component development I'm not trying to be a fanboy (but I'm a Tapestry fan) nor a troll, but the following article about developmento of JSF components really helped me to figure out what JSF is, specially when compared to Tapestry 5: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jsf4/. The author is trying to stop FUD that says that writing JSF components is hard. Then I remembered how much time I spent trying to write my first T5 component (less than 5 minutes after I figured out where I had to put its template). I'm learning JSF to do a presentation comparing different Java web frameworks. I'm not liking it, as it's too similar to Struts. ;) At first I thought JSF was similar to Tapestry than it really is, and Tapestry looks way better. What do you think JSF got better than Tapestry 5? The other side of the question is so easy that I don't need to question. :) I want to do a fair, passionless comparison between frameworks. Thiago --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown. This email transmission may contain confidential information. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. Copyright 2007 CIGNA ============================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
