Re: [jetty-discuss] Re: JSF & Jetty

[Russell H. <rus...@wr...>]

Greg Wilkins wrote:
> <rant class="bileblog>
> 
> This special case was somehow snuc into the servlet spec
> and as far as I can see, the developer that added this to the spec is
> the only developer on the entire planet that uses this facility!!!

[snip :)]

> You need to use a recent version of Jetty 5 and make sure that the
> <Item>org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.TagLibConfiguration</Item>
> is part of the   <Set name="WebApplicationConfigurationClassNames">

OK, well I have the recent Jetty 5 so I'll give it a try.

Just for Google's benefit:

<Configure class="org.mortbay.jetty.Server">
  <Set name="WebApplicationConfigurationClassNames">
    <Array type="java.lang.String">
      <Item>org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.TagLibConfiguration</Item>
    </Array>
  </Set>
  <!-- .... -->
</Configure>

Having said that, it looks like Apache's MyFaces implementation doesn't
rely on this daft trick, and requires you to specify the listener in
web.xml. Since the verbatim tag in MyFaces doesn't die with a
NullPointerException, I'm giving MyFaces a go instead of the JSF
'reference implementation'.

> But a much better approach would be to totally avoid nonsense
> like struts, JSF and almost anything else from the same stable!
> 
> </rant>

Rant noted :)

I'm going to reserve an open verdict on JSF until I've used it a bit
more. I have David Geary & Cay Horstmann's book "Core JavaServer Faces"
(Sun Microsystems Press) and feel compelled to at least give it a go.
Can't say I was much impressed by David Geary's "Advanced JavaServer
Pages" though.

On the other hand, I did like Marty Hall's "Core Servlets and JavaServer
Pages". It's rather limited in scope, but I find it quite useful. These
are all Sun books with the nifty holograms on the spine and exorbitant
prices :)

I don't think I know anyone who has a nice thing to say about Struts,
that's for sure. Never even looked at it myself, however.

<nitpick>
http://jetty.mortbay.org/javadoc/org/mortbay/jetty/servlet/TagLibConfiguration.html

has a typo :)

s/encapsualtion/encapsulation/
</nitpick>

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