Re: Developing a webapplication with JSF/J2EE: where do I start?

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, James Perkins wrote:

The Spring framework and JSF are not really in the same category.

The Spring framework is more of a database abstraction layer. It's WAY more
detail than that, but it's the best summary I could think of.

JavaServer Faces(JSF) is your UI. You basically design JavaServer Pages but
use the JSF tag libraries. With JSF you get A LOT more control over your
components though. It's similar to a true GUI like Swing.

You could also check out Tapestry (http://tapestry.apache.org/). I have not
used it, but it's similar to the JSF approach.

Now, if I had the time to learn and we could get JavaFX to the IBM i, we
could get some nice VERY rich UI!

That shows just how green I am! Spring does include a tag library for forms, so it does provide some of the same things as JSF. Tag libraries are something I'm just getting into - I've been coding all my JSP using <% %> and writing java code.

James Rich

if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
when you're done reading them :)
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