Re: Data validation, mapping, and error handling

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <thunderaxiom@xxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron Bartell skrev  den 09-06-2008 23:44:
> I am not trying to poke fun at EGL, but I have been using JSF for 
> about four
> years and have been through many mud puddles with it.  That is why I have
> been so skeptical of the ease-of-use statements being made about EGL.  I am
> waiting until somebody actually develops a medium sized application (let's
> say 100+ JSF pages) to see if EGL addressed some of those "bummers" and to
> see if that person developing a medium app still uses the same
> out-of-the-box features at that point or strayed away from them because they
> could save more time by "spinning their own wool" for certain portions
> (which is what I have done).
>   
You should know better by now to say something like that when I'm around :)

What "bummers" have you found in JSF which you'd care to talk about?  
I'm probably about to have to look at my aging JSF-application so I'd 
appreciate a brusher-upper.

Oh, I personally loved a tomahawk extension which allowed me to have the 
context of both source and destination available when creating a link 
(e.g. in a list referring to details about the item).  This allowed me 
to avoid carrying a gigantic set of around in the backend in order to 
have access to the needed information.

I also found that using Maps were often much easier than having to 
create Beans for everything.    The syntax is the same, so it doesn't 
matter much :)