[Building Sakai] UI rendering frameworks in Sakai CLE

[Steve Swinsburg]

Re wicket 1.5 - There are plans to move Sakai 2.9 to supporting Tomcat 6, so that Servlet spec issue should be alleviated.


On 26/03/2011, at 10:14 PM, Mustansar Mehmood wrote:

> 
>  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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