Hi Gary,
I don't mind at all... in fact I'm glad you took the time to do it.
JSFT's worst problem is its lack of documentation. :( However, the
developers are active and responsive, so emailing or joining the
#jsftemplating irc channel is your best way to get answers.
Gary Horton wrote:
1 -- is JSFTemplating
open-source? Can it be used without problem
in a commercial product?
It is open source and is used by GlassFish which is also sold
commercially as SJS AS 9.x.
2 -- will it work with the
MyFaces 1.1.5 JSF implementation and the
Tomahawk 1.1.6 component set?
I don't actively test with the MyFaces implementation. Most people
I've spoken with prefer the Sun implementation... imo, Ryan Lubke has
done an excellent job maintaining it (and of course serveral others
have helped).
Is MyFaces 1.1.5 a JSF 1.1 implementation? If so, the latest
JSFTemplating will not work with it as it leverages many of the
enhancements of JSF 1.2. I think MyFaces has a JSF 1.2 compliant
version available.
JSFTemplating should work with any JSF 1.1 or 1.2 implementation,
however, for 1.1 you will need to download the 1.1 jsftemplating jar
files from the jsftemplating www site:
https://jsftemplating.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList
As for Tomahawk components, they should work fine. You will need
either a facelets-taglib.xml file for them, or you will need to provide
your own JSFTemplating factories for the comonents, which are easy to
write, but I don't have them for Tomahawk components.
3 -- does it require use of
facelets, or is it an alternative that
can be used with JSP pages?
It does not use facelets, although it supports most of the Facelets
syntax (1.2 version only -- this feature wasn't available during the
1.1 release).
JSPs can co-exist with JSFTemplating pages w/o any problem right out of
the box.
4 -- if it does not
use/require facelets, is the migration path
from JSFtemplating to facelets relatively straightforward?
Depends on which features of Facelets you're using. If you're using
features I don't yet support... then I will have to support them, or
you'd have to implement it differently. I'd be very interested in
hearing how well your facelets pages run and fixing any problem you
encounter as compatibility is a high priority for me. JSF 2.0 will be
adopting a Facelets-like syntax and I want JSFT to have a very solid
implementation.
Let me know if you have any more questions!
Ken
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Hi Ken, et. al. --
Just wanted to shoot you some basic questions before I dig into
your JSFtemplating tutorial and then hit a dead-end...I've already done
this twice in the last 2 days with RichFaces and Facelets, so I hope
you don't mind my "lazy" approach here.
My basic questions are these:
1 -- is JSFTemplating open-source? Can it be used without problem
in a commercial product?
2 -- will it work with the MyFaces 1.1.5 JSF implementation and the
Tomahawk 1.1.6 component set?
3 -- does it require use of facelets, or is it an alternative that
can be used with JSP pages?
4 -- if it does not use/require facelets, is the migration path
from JSFtemplating to facelets relatively straightforward?
While I wait for your answers, I'll dig into your website and look
for this info myself - but I just wanted to get this in the queue since
my time is very limited; I need to make a decision on using your
framework very soon.
Thanks mucho!
-gh
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Gary Horton
Storage Platform Software Group
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Broomfield, CO
303-443-1518, x79140, 303-272-9140
http://blogs.sun.com/lokibear
http://www.linkedin.com/in/garyhorton