thejavajar

Well, maturity is something that comes with time and experience but I fear that JSF may not reach a mature status before the technology, as we know it, is dwarfed by something new. I have been working with JSF for over a year now and I like a lot about what it has or what it is trying to offer. There are a few things that stand out when I think of JSF but one thing rings in my ears; binding. We are in a world where things are asynchronous, detached, and service oriented, yet JSF is still tied to the server for simple things that have been solved in the browser, or client, years ago. I think that JSF’s saving grace will come from a technology that extends what is there and makes a lot of the issues transparent to developers. I hear NetBeans is very helpful when it comes to JSF development and I have seen a presentation at the Tampa JUG showing how “nice” things can be. Well, maybe something will come along to make things better…Flex? JavaFX? GWT? Pick your poision.