David Geary is the president of Sabreware, Inc., a Java training and consulting company. David has developed object-oriented software for nearly 20 years and worked on the Java APIs at Sun Microsystems from 1994 to 1997. He is the author of six Java books, including the Graphic Java series, Advanced JavaServer Pages, and Core JSTL. David is a member of the expert groups for the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) and JavaServer Faces; was one of the earliest contributors to the Apache Struts application framework; and wrote test questions for Sun's Web Component Developer Exam. David is the co-author of the soon to be released Core JavaServer Faces, which is published by Sun Microsystems Press.
"Whatever you do, don't use JSF. Not yet anyway." Those were the closing
words of a devastating blog recently called "My JSF Experience" by J2EE
consultant Matt Raible. "JSF is a technology that's likely to succeed,"
Raible added later - but his main beef with JavaServer Faces was clear:
"Plain and simple, it does not simplify Web development."
This spurred the following spirited response from a member of the JSF Expert
Group, David Geary. ("I do not speak for the group" when making these
comments, Geary notes.)
David Geary writes:
"Matt starts out by saying:
Of all the MVC Frameworks I've developed with in the last few weeks (Struts,
Spring MVC, WebWork and Tapestry) - JSF was by far the worst. And it's not
the implementations that are the problem, it's the spec itself ... (more)
David Geary is the president of Sabreware, Inc., a Java training and consulting company. David has developed object-oriented software for nearly 20 years and worked on the Java APIs at Sun Microsystems from 1994 to 1997. He is the author of six Java books, including the Graphic Java series, Advanced JavaServer Pages, and Core JSTL. David is a member of the expert groups for the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) and JavaServer Faces; was one of the earliest contributors to the Apache Struts application framework; and wrote test questions for Sun's Web Component Developer Exam. David is the co-author of the soon to be released Core JavaServer Faces, which is published by Sun Microsystems Press.
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