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Switching from JSF to GWT

After having given it a serious consideration, I decided to switch from JSF to GWT as the UI for my web-apps for the future. I have started converting a Strus 1.2 based application (www.os-seilforening.org) and removing the JSP layer. I initially started out using JSF (MyFaces/Shale/Clay) but have come to the conclusion that there are simply not enough working! widgets to justify the load on the server. One of the nice things that came out of that excercise was that I refactored out all the DAO and Buisiness logic from the Struts Actions. That meant that when I now am redoing the UI in GWT I can keep all that and just focus on the UI - Nice ! I'll come back we some writeup on my experience of the various component libraries Iaell be using to augment bas GWT soon.

Posted at 10:03PM des 10, 2007 by Hermod in Java  |