What to use instead of HTMLB for external facing portals

Hi all
We all know that HTMLB is on it's way out and I was just wondering what to replace it with, especially when dealing with external facing portals and the simple portal framework.
Since HTMLB and WD won't cut it the only thing there is left is the AbstractPortalConmponent.
Has anyone had success with implementing another framework, like for instance MyFaces (http://myfaces.apache.org/) or Tapestry (http://tapestry.apache.org/), in the APC. Or perhaps someone developed a entirely new framework for the APC to use?
If you have knowledge or ideas, please comment them.
Best regards
Thomas Bentzen

Hi Harini
I was never talking about tags, and I personally like avoid JSP's altogether (strictly personal opinion).
I was thinking more of what to do in the long run. I mean writing JSP's for the view and using APC as the controller is not a very performant way of doing development, perhaps we should aim a little higher and perhaps implement something there already is a standard and already fulfills the requirements of x509. If we're even a little more clever than that we might choose a framework that already have support for AJAX (HttpXML requests).
I don't really know what to do at this time and therefore was asking for ideas, on the architectural level, but also implementable.
Any ideas?

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