I stayed with version 4.1, and although it is missing some bells and
whistles, so far so good as far as stability and compatibility.
At least I'll be able to check out that version and keep it for my own
purposes.
Nevertheless the lack of a straight answer is extremely worrying.
However I don't think it likely that Woodstock will be abandoned, since
it is at the core of the netbeans web platform.
You never know, I guess.
Federico Vela
Felipe Jaekel wrote:
> I don't think NetBeans would let having a visual solution for JSF. Many
> people use NetBeans because of it and it seems to have a lot of bug
> fixes at NetBeans 6.5. I guess the big mystery is about Woodstock.
>
> I have always preferred Sun's standards and implementations. Hope they
> don't screw up.
>
> Meanwhile I'm "dating" Eclipse's WTP + RichFaces.
>
> 2008/10/1 jsr <j-nabble_at_ragtop.org <mailto:j-nabble_at_ragtop.org>>
>
>
> I'm using the Woodstock team's silence as an excuse to finally get
> rid of
> both them and VWP.
>
> It has become painfully obvious that Project Woodstock, just like
> VWP, was
> designed as a proof of concept and not for use with production
> applications.
> This started becoming more evident when they decided to switch
> everything to
> use client side rendering even though performance was hideous. This
> approach
> works fine if you are just doing a small page with a couple of text
> fields,
> but a large production application is a different story. Their lack of
> communication about the status of the project is just the latest
> sign that
> they don't intend on their components being seriously used in a
> production
> environment.
>
> If I were you guys, I would be running away from Woodstock as fast as I
> could. Even if the project miraculously comes back to life, they've
> already
> shown that at any moment it could die again leaving everyone stuck
> using an
> unsupported set of components.
>
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