Ann: North East Conference on MVC Frameworks and Struts in 3 weeks:

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Ann: North East Conference on MVC Frameworks and Struts in 3 weeks:
Most people already know what MVC is, once you know what it is, here is the next step. Presenting will be the popular frameworks and components in use by 8 speakers:
-Ted Husted – Author – Struts Chains/2.0 – the dominant framework in use, from Ziff Davis, to Apple Store to most large commercial sites.
Husted.com
-Rod Johnson – Author – EJB/Spring
springFrameWork.com
-Christophe Coenraets – Flex-MacroMedia - “back to rich UI w/SOA” (Great blog entry on Struts + Flex)
markMe.com/cc
-Howard Lewis Ship – Author – HiveMind (SOA, IOC, AOP) – commonly referred to as “the next big thing”
javaTapestry.blogspot.com
-Clinton Begin – DAO/iBatis/SQLMaps – the best DAO layer
imo, used by Spring, jPetStore, basicPortal, etc.
-Matt Raible – Author – displayTag/strutsMenu – (displayTag is my favorite J2EE component)
Raibledesigns.com
-Jason Carreira – WebWork 2
freeroller.net/page/jCarreira
- Vic Cekvenich – Author – basicPortal (J2EZ – easy and simple to customize application for membership, portal, cms, community, store, etc. using bestPractices for large, profitable commercial sites. )
+ more
You will get a CD mailed to you once you register.
April 3rd from 8AM to 7PM in NYC at nyhotel.com, next to MSG. Advertised in JDJ, NY Times, etc. My guess is that you won’t find half as many good sessions at Sun’s Java One.
It $99 to register now at baseBeans.com, in a few day's price keeps going up.

Answer 1

Hey Jan,
Oracle's E-Business suite is moving to a JSF solution. This is really for three main reasons (abbreviated version):
1) JSF is much more focused on the 'view' components. The component model has a clean separation of the component definition from its rendering. This, among many other things, allows us to provide a consistent development environment and APIs for developers building apps for browsers, mobile devices, telnet devices, etc.
2) JSF has a better defined lifecycle. The JSF lifecycle maps much closer to the phases that enterprise applications need when processing data from a web application. We are able to easily extend this to add things not currently in the spec, like portlets, wireless, etc., as well as more easily plug new components into the framework.
3) Once you remove the JSP tags & FormBean from Struts, all you are left with is the navigation. There is nothing special in the Struts navigation that would cause us to try to make the two technologies work together. In fact, the Faces navigation will not be robust enough in its current form to support the declarative navigation requirements for Oracle apps. We plan to extend the JSF navigation and then work to submit that back into the standards.
Hope this helps,
Ted Farrell
Oracle Corporation.