Re: Volunteer for Java Development
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
On 11-12-24 12:54 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:15:13 -0800 (PST), Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
Struts is obsolete. Use JSF.
I was told JSF has hugely more overhead.
What kind of overhead?
4) API complexity?
All of the web framework APIs are large
No. Stripes is pretty small.
I've never used JSF, so i have no first-hand evidence. By way of
second-hand evidence, i see a lot of questions on forums from people who
are struggling with some aspect of JSF. I very rarely see questions like
that for action-style frameworks like Struts or Stripes, despite the fact
that such frameworks are very widely used.
Also, correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't JSF (like other component-style
frameworks) make it harder to precisely control the HTML than action-style
frameworks? The last project i did used an action-style framework. Our web
designers sat down and cranked out finely-tuned HTML for the site, taking
care to make it lean, semantic, portable across browsers, SEO-friendly,
etc. We programmers could pick up their static mockups and made minimal
changes to make the appropriate bits dynamic - replacing a hardcoded value
with a ${}, an <input> with a <webframework:input>, and so on. Can you do
that with JSF?
tom
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