Re: EGL Install

From: albartell

Then you can hand the JSF page (which follows industry standards) to a

web
designer who can make it pretty.

I am curious to know if they have eased the pain of JSF on web designers.

This is a terrific question, Aaron.  First off, understand that when JSF
first came out, I loathed it.  It is over-engineered and complex to the
point of insensibility.  And the topper came when I read a comment from one
of the developers that JSF wasn't designed to be written by people, but
instead only by tools.  That pretty much knocked it off my list.

But then I saw how EGL treated it.  While the jury is still out on the UI
side (I plan to really put it to the test over the next several weeks),
there are certain things that I see as really cool.  First is the easy drag
and drop access between EGL and the JSF; that gets me past the issue of the
complexity of the tag language.  But second is the interaction between the
program and the page.  Check out this snippet:

  function onPageLoad()
    myInputField HtmlInputText;
    myInputField = myViewRoot.findComponent("form1:text1");
    myInputField.setStyle("color : red");
  end

This changes the color of the field TEXT1 in form FORM1 to red.

I can live with this!  This is truly DDS for the web, only better because
it's not indicator driven.

Joe