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</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>We will both advocate for vendors to use the built-in Ajax library and gather feedback as to where it is limited so that we can improve on it. Jim Driscoll has done a lot of work with the Ajax API and would likely be able to comment further.<br>
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Can anyone comment on how the JSF 2.0 AJAX library compares to other major Java web frameworks? Is it on-par, ahead of, or behind other web frameworks?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>It is certainly more conservative simply because we don't want to dump in the kitchen sink and then regret it after the fact. However, I know that the Ajax interaction itself is very clean, simple and should be very straightforward for most developers to understand. Again, Jim's blog is likely the best resource to get a feel for how this Ajax library is used for you to judge for yourself.<br>
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Another question I have is about hiding managed beans from views. If I were to build a JSF 2.0 application that lets users customize the screens with themes/skins, I would not want them to be able to access any and every scoped bean in the system. To have this level of control I might need to use a web framework that gives me more control such as Struts 2, because it uses Freemarker and/or Velocity.<br>
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Have you heard of anyone mixing JSF with Freemarker?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I talked to a developer at JBoss World that was interested in creating a module that would cater to this integration. But nothing concrete at this point. I can say that the whole idea of the VDL is to encourage other view languages to emerge.<br>
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