The JSF framework, Shale created by Tomcat and Struts founding father, Craig McClanahan will begin merging assets of the project into the Apache Myfaces project. It was once considered to be the natural (or unatural depending on what side of the JSF divide you were on) successor to to the venerable Struts Web Application Framework. After some controversy on the future of Struts 2.0 (see Struts in Flux) it became its own top level Apache project. Now, with some of the hype fading from JSF and competition from the hot new JSF/EJB3 framework, Jboss Seam, activity on the Shale project has dropped dramatically. Well, I’m wishing everyone good luck on the merger and hoping that we see some great things coming out of MyFaces in the future.
Laterz
GJ
Quietly, Shale seeks merger with MyFaces
Community, frameworks, java, jsf
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Oct 262007
With all the hoopla over the new Seam 2.0 CR2 release over at Jboss, it was something else that got me excited. Seam is now mavenized! It’s kind of funny because the Hiberate Posse has never been big on Maven. But like me, many are starting to see the light in having a standard for project structure. I will be trying out Seam this weekend, hoping that the seam-gen stuff is usable now.
Peace,
GJ
