IBM JSF to Sun JSF migration
843844Jan 23 2008 — edited Jan 23 2008We're looking at moving one of our apps away from IBM's JSF implementation (running on WebSphere6) to a standard reference implementation of JSF potentially to run on TomCat.
The problem is that our application makes heavy use of some special page events that aren't part of the reference implementation. Specifically I refer to the onPageLoadBegin, onPageLoadEnd events provided in IBM's implementation of JSF.
We also make heavy use of Templates, (JTPL) files, which I am not sure if they are part non-IBM JSF.
It would be a major effort to modify the web app not to use templates and the "PageLoad" events. So I was wondering a few things:
1. The "PageLoad" events are extremely useful, is there any plan to include them in a JSR any time soon?
2. Is there anything in standard JSF which accomplishes the same objective that PageLoad events do? Meaning to prepare the beans used on the page to display appropriate data.
3. Do Templates exist in non-IBM JSF?
4. As far as tooling, IBM's tool RAD (based on Eclipse) has great support for working with JSF sites, especially those where the pages are based on Templates. Anything in the open-source community for working with JSF files (in terms of a plugin to the Eclipse IDE)?