[Building Sakai] UI rendering frameworks in Sakai CLE

[Mustansar Mehmood]

  As far as I know there is little development happening on RSF front.  
Main JSF complaint is that it is not so easy on UI designers. Apache 
wicket somehow seems promising due to the fact that it it is plain HTML 
with Java with significant AJAX support. The coolest feature of wicket 
is that most of the coding and event handling happens on the server side 
in plain Java a bit like GWT.   However due to 'Technical Debt' of sakai 
i.e
lack of support for
                  servlets 2.5/3.0
                tomcat 6/7  the upcoming version od wicket version(1.5 
currently at RC2) cannot be used:(.
I personally have not used apache Tapestry so have no particular comment 
on that.
               Spring 3.0   3/25/2011 11:44 AM, Adrian Fish wrote:
> 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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*Mustansar Mehmood*
Educational System Developer & Integrator
Informational Technology
Rice University
Houston Texas
Ph:(713)348 2523

I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it 
short. -Blaise Pascal
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