Re: Data validation, mapping, and error handling

Aaron Bartell skrev den 09-06-2008 23:44:

I am not trying to poke fun at EGL, but I have been using JSF for about four
years and have been through many mud puddles with it. That is why I have
been so skeptical of the ease-of-use statements being made about EGL. I am
waiting until somebody actually develops a medium sized application (let's
say 100+ JSF pages) to see if EGL addressed some of those "bummers" and to
see if that person developing a medium app still uses the same
out-of-the-box features at that point or strayed away from them because they
could save more time by "spinning their own wool" for certain portions
(which is what I have done).

You should know better by now to say something like that when I'm around :)

What "bummers" have you found in JSF which you'd care to talk about? I'm probably about to have to look at my aging JSF-application so I'd appreciate a brusher-upper.

Oh, I personally loved a tomahawk extension which allowed me to have the context of both source and destination available when creating a link (e.g. in a list referring to details about the item). This allowed me to avoid carrying a gigantic set of around in the backend in order to have access to the needed information.

I also found that using Maps were often much easier than having to create Beans for everything. The syntax is the same, so it doesn't matter much :)