[jsr-314-open] [jsf2next] PROJECT_STAGE system property configuration

[Cay Horstmann]

On 01/06/2010 03:45 PM, Jim Driscoll wrote:

> So, do we want naive users to have imperfect error messages, or a slow
> server?
>
> Because those are the choices...
>
> And a naive user is more likely to notice the imperfect error messages
> than the decrease in performance, right?

Yes, indeed. That's why you want the default to be Development.

You could alert naive users with a message at the bottom of the error 
display: "This application is deployed in Development mode..."

This way, only naive users who write perfect programs won't notice :-)

> We also may have over-specified this - why not say that the default is
> container specific? That, plus the ability to set this container-wide,
> could possibly solve the issue.

How would that solve the issue of naive users complaining that JSF is 
too hard to use? It would just add another level of uncertainty.

Cheers,

Cay

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