Re: A Dialogue

[Glenn Holmer <gholmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> I saw a demo at JAOO 2006 where the amount of work needed to add Ajax to 
> a JSF-solution was a matter of adding tags to delimit the area updated 
> by Ajax (so the whole page was not to be reloaded).  The rest was 
> unchanged.  The learning curve is steep, but the view is good.

You're probably talking about Dynamic Faces [1].  My current feeling is
that JSF and Dynamic Faces are the future of web programming.  We're
(still) exploring the NetBeans Visual Web Editor, which uses the
Woodstock JSF components by default [2]. As far as I can see, they use
this technique, and I have had test apps written that talk to an iSeries
(though not using Dynamic Faces).

[1]
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2006/08/introducing_pro.html

[2] https://woodstock.dev.java.net/index.html