Blogging Roller

Raible's published his first magazine article (contrats Matt), an insightful and informative piece on the state the J2EE web tier for JDJ titled Challenges in the J2EE Web Tier While Frameworks Driving Innovation. He traces the motivations and history behind JavaServer Faces (JSF) and the many challenges it faces.

I'll admit, I hadn't really given much thought to the mismatch between JSP and JSF. After reading Hans Bergsten's excellent article Improving JSF by Dumping JSP again, I tend to agree with Matt. A cuddly little open source project called Facelets could be the savior of JSF. And check out the Facelet docs; they've been getting some help from JSF spec lead Ed Burns. When I get back to my RollerFaces experiment, I'm going to give Facelets a try.