Re: JSF/EGL datatable positioning question

Steve,

I am not competent to speak to ASP.NET and will not try to do so. I will
say that EGL has competed successfully in shops that were evaluating several
alternatives and had people with .NET expertise on site. These people chose
EGL. You would need to look at EGL for yourself and make your own decisions
in this area. I would like to think we are competitive. Others seem to
think we are but I cannot answer this one.

On Dec 18, 2007 10:47 AM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Dec 18, 2007 8:47 AM, Bob Cancilla <bob.cancilla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

JSF is not and has never been about page layout. It has always been

about

an attempt to provide a more robust interface between the web page and

the

server -- look carefully at the "codebehind" code file that backs up

every

JSF page. Also look at how JavaScript is embedded in JSF widgets to the
point that JavaScript, Java, and HTML become indistinguishable in the
resulting web page. Consider also that JSF is totally extensible.

Ok, all of this is great, but extremely complex and tedious to

implement.

Tooling is the key to this.

does JSF support server side controls like ASP.NET? The asp.net approach
to
abstracting away the complexity of web programming are server side
controls.
Which are themselves based firmly on the fundementals of the .net
framework
- classes, inheritance, delegates and event handlers.

By IBM going the code generation route of EGL, is it saying its method has
advantages, is superior to asp.net?

-Steve
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