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Component Framework Primer for JSF Users
For each area we will compare and contrast approaches taken by the three frameworks with an eye on understanding the strengths and weaknesses of each solution. We will also consider whether there are opportunities to improve JSF itself based on lessons learned from our comparative analysis. Attendees of this presentation should expect both to gain insight into how new features provided in JSF 2.0 can simplify development, and should come away with a better understanding of how other frameworks have tackled similar problems.
JSF 2.0 includes many new features that simplify both component development as well as application development. This presentation looks at the new revision of JSF and compares it to two other popular component-centric web frameworks: Wicket and Tapestry. We will start by answering a simple question: What constitutes a "component" in each framework? We will then examine other framework features including:
- Page construction
- Data binding
- Input processing and validation
- Event handling
- Navigation
- Ajax support
About Andy Schwartz
Andy Schwartz is a software engineer at Oracle, where he has spent the last 16 years designing and developing user interface frameworks. The latest of these is ADF Faces, a JSF-based, AJAX-enabled framework and component set. Andy also serves as Oracle's representative to the JSR-314 (JSF 2.0) expert group. Andy blogs about JSF and ADF Faces at http://andyschwartz.wordpress.com/.
Andy has presented at AjaxWorld, JavaOne, W-JAX and Devoxx on JSF-related topics.
