Oracle to donate their JSF implementation
Read it on Matt Raible’s blog, apparently Oracle has decided to donate their JSF implementation (ADF Faces) to the Apache Faces project.
JSF is quite cool, even though I haven’t had the time to play around with it as much as for e.g. Tapestry, but I believe for it to take momentum we need to see a nice ecosystem of components (commercial and open), that’s the whole point about a component based framework. Another point is that JSF seems to be designed around RAD development, I am not sure how good the tools are these days but it seems to be catching up. I believe if JSF should take a hard spot on the framework map we need the RAD tools (at least to catch the “corporate developer” coming from a background such as VB/.NET).
Hopefully I will have the opportunity to form a tighter opinion about JSF in the near future since my current project uses/starting to use JSF.
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