Facelets Fits JSF Like a Glove
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 24th Feb 2006 11:59 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Java "Trying to combine JSF and JSP is like trying to shoehorn a foot into a glove: it's possible, but it's really just a stopgap measure until something better comes along. In this article, JSF enthusiast Rick Hightower introduces you to what he likes best about Facelets: easy HTML-style templating and reusable composition components."
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Facelets
by gmlongo on Fri 24th Feb 2006 17:02 UTC
gmlongo
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2005-07-07

After using SiteMesh, we found the need for a JSF templating solution. After a little research, we found Facelets. It is amazing at how it can simplify your development. If you are using JSF, you might want to give Facelets a shot.

-G

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JSF is incomplete?
by aquila_deus on Sun 26th Feb 2006 16:04 UTC in reply to "Facelets"
aquila_deus Member since:
2005-10-02

Doesn't the need of facelet imply that JSF itself is incomplete and cannot be used directly?

The standard is supposed to make things vendor-independent, yet it itself is unable to cover the basic requirements so that all vendors will have to put various extensions to make it useful. Hasn't anyone ever wondered how ridiculous this is?

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JSF
by jasoncwarner on Fri 24th Feb 2006 18:10 UTC
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2005-11-15

Sorry, but JSF is just a joke. I used it for about a year and then I decided to try a couple of other things: namely Tapestry for J2EE and Rails for smaller side projects.

They completely missed the boat with JSF.

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RE: JSF
by gmlongo on Fri 24th Feb 2006 18:20 UTC in reply to "JSF"
gmlongo Member since:
2005-07-07

The RI of JSF from Sun is a joke, but utilizing MyFaces and Facelets is no joke. It is a very powerful and extensible application framework.

-G

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RE: JSF
by ossprinter on Fri 24th Feb 2006 22:33 UTC in reply to "JSF"
ossprinter Member since:
2006-02-24

JSF is definitely not a joke. I am using JSF toogether with Struts in my current project and they work together very well. The majority part of our project is to do scientific data query and the extended data table and page scroller provided in tomahawk make it very easy to generate data report.

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MyFaces
by werpu on Fri 24th Feb 2006 21:15 UTC
werpu
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2006-01-18

Actually MyFaces currently is getting a huge component boost, in 1.1.2 there will be around 10-15 additional sandbox components (some of them will make it into tomahawk by 1.1.3), as we speak the tobago components
are coming out of the sandbox and will be another myfaces subproject and oracle just donated 113 components, parts of the adf faces to the opensource community and they are under incubation.

So myfaces in the long run will be several hundred components for web development. Which is a serious number to cover most if not all common cases.

So everyone dismissing JSF really did not get the point that this technology lives with components, and they are here already.

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3rd party
by situation on Fri 24th Feb 2006 22:00 UTC
situation
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2006-01-10

JSF has lots of community support, as it got into the market at just the right time (before the AJAX rush). People like www.icesoft.com and the already mentioned MyFaces have lots of good third party components.

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N
by Sphinx on Fri 24th Feb 2006 23:51 UTC
Sphinx
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2005-07-09

Still seems too much like pounding that old stone tablet of mixing content with presentation, prefer servlets, XML and XSLT.

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If you prefer
by werpu on Sat 25th Feb 2006 07:36 UTC
werpu
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2006-01-18

Xml with xslt you have to try Cocoon, but I do not see really a point, xml+xslt has its own purposes, JSF is something entirely different it is a framework to build highly interactive server rendered applications, and facelets is a templating technology for enabling easy componentization.

XSl+XSLT is comparable to JSF like PDF to QT or the Win32 api, both try to fill different nieches of the presentation layer.

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