It was an interesting topic yesterday at the Philly Java User Group. Kito Mann, the author of Manning’s ‘JavaServer Faces’, was the speaker. He started off with an overview of the JSF and Struts Shale. Interestingly, not many people at the meeting were aware of the Struts Shale. It was nice knowing about Struts Shale and how it is built over JSF.
The speaker went on to explain various strategies to migrate — component usage, incremental migration and full migration. All in all it was an informative session.
I have started using JSF recently and started liking it. Development-wise it appears to be heading in the right direction. At this moment it doesn’t have the capability of doing the client-side stuff but there are ways to achieve that. Surely makes the life of a developer lot easier to concentrate more on the business layer of the application than the low level details. A good framework with a focus on event-oriented development.
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