It's good to know you all are having positive experiences with JSF 2.0. If 
I learn it, it will be on my own time. I'm trying to learn as much as 
possible about various (web) languages and frameworks to know the pros and 
cons even though I have little professional experience with Java web 
development. In terms of JSF 2.0 development, I have been waiting on Geary 
and Horstmann's book to come out, but it keeps getting delayed. If you 
have any good advice regarding online resources or books, please let me 
know.
Blake
Here are some of the ones we've found so far:
- Facelets replace JSPs as the primary view language.
- Some components can be defined using facelets 
  entirely, instead of having to write Java code for 
  customization.
- Ajax is baked in well enough to do some fairly 
  sophisticated things (partial rendering) without
  JavaScript.
- XML configuration is no longer required.
- Beans can have custom scopes that don't require 
  as much (if any) housekeeping code.
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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:22 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: [WEB400] JSF 2.0 a lot better was ->Re: Why use PHP? What are the 
disadvantages?
Could you expound?  I used the initial JSF release and liked some parts a
lot and others were productivity drainers.
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
<ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
Den 21/04/10 00.02, BButterworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx skrev:
I am not familiar with JSF, but would like to learn more about the 
Spring
and Grails Frameworks in terms of Java-type web development. I've read 
a
lot of negative criticism over JSF, but maybe 2.0 will be better. I am
JSF 2.0 is a _lot_ better!
(and in JEE 6)
--
  Thorbj?rn Ravn Andersen  "...plus... Tubular Bells!"
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