[Building Sakai] UI rendering frameworks in Sakai CLE

[Adrian Fish]

Hi all,

Putting zealotry aside, does anybody have any thoughts about the 
direction the CLE should be taking regarding rendering framework best 
practice? I'm talking JSF, RSF, Wicket, Velocity, JSP etc. Does anybody 
have any views on what makes a framework good, or bad? HTML purity? 
Broad community? Maintainability?

I'm asking because I'm currently learning RSF as some of the software 
I'm working on already uses it. In particular I'm working on the Add 
Participants tool. It used to be written in Velocity, now it's RSF. So 
my final question is: was the switch worth it and if so, why?

Cheers,
Adrian.

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Adrian Fish
Software Engineer
Centre for e-Science
Bowland Tower South C Floor
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YW
email: a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk

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