Re: A Dialogue

Hi Thorbjørn,

Sounds very interesting, but I am pretty sure that I will not be able to
attend your presentation.

;-) Probably not. Depending on what I have, I may post to my website after January 9. It will be basically how to's and issues that come up in real applications that aren't documented obviously and/or well.

Is there anything in the RI or Richfaces that you think is so
spectacular...

Not particularly. My comment was based on the general proposition that almost anything is OK *as long as you're aware of the consequences of the decision.* IDE's can make the decision for you without you realizing it. For instance, RAD uses IBM's components; NetBeans uses Rave. With the RI, I always know what I am using. Plus, JEE 5 has JSF RI support built in, so no extra baggage to cart around.

RichFaces was my particular choice after looking over the various AJAX supported components. You may find others more suited to your needs. The primary issue I've seen with RichFaces so far (or not discovered how to stop it ) is duplicate javascript for each component. That'll be my primary fix request to them.


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----- Original Message ----- From: "Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen" <thunderaxiom@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400" <java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:32 AM
Subject: Re: A Dialogue


Joe Sam Shirah skrev den 11-12-2007 21:02:

Hi Thorbjørn,

I've been using Facelets since 2005, and added RichFaces this time
around. That's in conjunction with the Glassfish project that had some
discussion earlier. I'm presenting "Fun with JSF, Facelets and RichFaces"
to our JUG in January, and am going to send out an invite to the local
AS/400 group. As you might expect, there are several areas that it helps to
be knowledgeable about, and some I'm going to send to Ed Burns to maybe deal
with in JSF 2.0.

Sounds very interesting, but I am pretty sure that I will not be able to
attend your presentation. Could you perhaps share what you will tell
your JUG?

I'm not completely married to RichFaces, but IMO Facelets is the way to
go with JSF.

As for IDE's, just be careful that you don't unknowingly get stuck with
*it's* favorite brand of components. Personally, I use the RI components
unless I specifically want another, like the Richfaces elements.

For my project I ended up with myfaces + tomahawk. The single facility
that was fantastic when coding was the tomahawk tag that allowed access
to both the old and the new page's information when needing to pass
parameters to the new context <t:update....> somethingish.

Is there anything in the RI or Richfaces that you think is so
spectacular that I should know about it?

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Thorbjørn