I’m working with different JSF frameworks for some time now and had a look back to the Struts-based Common-Controls recently.
My last hands-on on Struts was in 2003. So, I can’t remember in detail if I had a good or bad feeling about using it. I remember that I chose it to get faster results. The learning curve was quite steep. But, reconsidering the time-frame I had the result was ok to me.
Todays JSF experiences in mind it was ...
MoreAlthough, I’m a fan of the Spring Framework it’s not in any case the best you can get. Meanwhile, there’s a lot of stuff in it. But, limited resources and parallel developments in the community, to improve certain aspects of the Java/JEE platform, led to parts in Spring that should be skipped or further developed before used.
One of these aspects in Spring is Spring-MVC. From the historical point of view it helps to get rid of cumbersome JSP coding, like ...
MoreJavaServer Faces (JSF) is the upcoming standard for the presentation layer of enterprise architectures. It’s going to replace the good old Struts. Struts, being the first widely accepted MVC 2 framework, to separate presentation from business logic, JSF now adds a real component model, event handling, validation and more to it. JSF can be compared to GUI development, although it doesn’t result in a single standalone client-side application, but in a bunch of code for the app ...
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Rainer Eschen is an agile coach with a focus on Scrum Project Management.
He is a Certified Professional Scrum Master I, a Certified Project
Management Associate (IPMA Level D) and co-founder of openPM.
Since the mid-1990s Rainer worked as a consultant, developer, architect, team leader, systems engineer, project manager, scrum master and scrum coach – since 2000 with a strong focus on JEE. He was also part of “the source” for 3 years working at Sun Microsystems, Germany.
Rainer is author of the book ICEfaces 1.8: Next Generation Enterprise Web Development, Packt Publishing, 2009.
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