JA-SIG Day3 - Comparing Web Frameworks

This is my notes. The official presentation slides will be at:

http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JCON/Denver+2007+presentations

The presenter - Matt Raible
http://raibledesigns.com/
Project sites:
http://rollerweblogger.org/project/
http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net/

Frameworks:
my notes on the things that I care -:)

1. JSF
• Don't play well with REST ...
  
• Java EE standard; not work well with JSPs
  
2. Spring MVC
• Only one not Apache
• NO AJAX support
• IoC
  
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3. Stripes *take a look ..
   
• http://mc4j.org/confluence/display/stripes/Home
• NO XML
• Hard-codes URLs in ActionBean
  
4. Struts 2
• Tag library customization: FreeMarker or Velocity
  
5. Tapestry
6. Wicket
• http://wicket.sourceforge.net/
• Good for Java developer - not Web developer ?? -- everything is done in Java.
  
7. My Faces
   

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Max Watch:

• Stripes
  http://mc4j.org/confluence/display/stripes/Home
• FreeMarker
  http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/index.html
• JSON
  http://json.org/
• Post & Redirect (page refresh; submit twice) -- 'flash' support
  
• SiteMesh
  http://www.opensymphony.com/sitemesh/