Future of JSF in Liferay

[Jan Tošovský, modificado hace 9 años.]

Dear All,

I am fan of JSF, but few last months I can see big movement to solely client-side frameworks like AngularJS.

JSF is considered as deprecated technology:
http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/#/languages-and-frameworks

Which is explained nicely here:
http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-origins-angular-js

Recently also RichFaces follows this trend:
http://www.bleathem.ca/blog/2014/07/richfaces-will-pursue-stability-over-innovation.html

So I am asking myself, it is worth creating new portlets in JSF or should I rather switch to another technologies?
Some hints for using AngularJS in LR can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21140580/using-of-angularjs-with-lireray

Could anybody describe pros/cons of JSF solution in Liferay?

Thanks, Jan

[Neil Griffin, modificado hace 9 años.]

Hi Jan,

Thanks for posting this question and for your kind words about JSF.

Regarding development of new JSF portlets, I would recommend that you read my recent blog post titled The Future is Bright for JSF.

Regarding the ThoughtWorks page you referenced, I would recommend that you read the blog post titled JSF is not what you’ve been told anymore written by PrimeFaces lead Cagatay Civici.

Kind Regards,

Neil

[David H Nebinger, modificado hace 9 años.]

Angular is sweet!

JSF future aside, I tend to recommend using what you know. Often times you are looking at a schedule that just won't allow for a learning curve to pick up, use and debug a new framework. Right now, there may be some angular folks, but they're not liferay folks and there's liferay folks who aren't angular folks. So your pool of knowledge, talent, and support is pretty darn small.

If you and your team know JSF and you can leverage the ajaxy functionality of JSF, you'll be just fine with it. And as long as we have Neil around, you can't beat his experience in working through JSF issues.

As developers, it is often important to remember that sometimes when you're on the cutting edge, you can end up cut and bleeding out...

[Jan Tošovský, modificado hace 9 años.]

David H Nebinger:

...it is often important to remember that sometimes when you're on the cutting edge, you can end up cut and bleeding out...

I like this a lot! But sometimes I feel like this even with JSF ;-)

[David H Nebinger, modificado hace 9 años.]

Jan Tošovský:

David H Nebinger:

...it is often important to remember that sometimes when you're on the cutting edge, you can end up cut and bleeding out...

I like this a lot! But sometimes I feel like this even with JSF ;-)

They do keep making forward progress, though, and you can give certain aspects time to "bake in" so you're not the tester...