Re: Volunteer for Java Development
On Friday, December 23, 2011 8:54:30 PM UTC-8, Roedy Green wrote:
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:15:13 -0800 (PST), Lew <lewb...@gmail.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
Struts is obsolete. Use JSF.
I was told JSF has hugely more overhead.
Than Spring? Not in my observation. JSF is much easier to use.
What kind of overhead were you _told_ that JSF introduces?
I have always found it to radically accelerate development, by something li=
ke five to one compared to other flows I've used except for Struts, but wit=
h much more expressive power and greatly reduced deployment effort. The XH=
TML variant works even better than the JSP variant.
Really, JSF is a _tour de force_, and with the Tomahawk library there's lit=
tle you cannot accomplish in the UI. (Other libraries also exist for JSF.)
Plus it's part of the JSF standard. Actually it's any _other_ framework th=
at would have to be considered "overhead", since JSF already comes with. S=
omeone told you exactly backwards.
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Lew