I'd love to see some built-in interoperability in JSF for GWT. GWT gives you a lot of Ajax firepower (in fact, it's unrivaled, IMO) on the client, and JSF provides lots of firepower on the server. Combining the two technologies is a very attractive proposition.

Grails has a GWT plug-in, and I would love to see JSF have something along those lines.


david


2009/12/17 Jim Driscoll <Jim.Driscoll@sun.com>
While the wicket fanboys like to bang on pots and pans and make a lot of noise, I think it's important for me to say where I think we should really be paying attention -

The following 2 Indeed job trends graphs hopefully make my point:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=jsf%2C+gwt%2C+jquery%2C+yui%2C+dojo%2C+wicket&l=

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=jsf%2C+php%2C+asp%2C+rails%2C+wicket&l=

We can learn a thing or two from wicket, but I'd rather learn from or work with technologies that are actually in the process of breaking out, or have already had great success.

Just something to keep in mind next time you get a derisive tweet.

Jim

P.S.  And that's also a reminder to me that I really need to look at GWT again.  And I still have that action item to examine our interoperability with jQuery more thoroughly.

P.P.S.  Yes, I think jQuery has won the JS framework wars for the time being.  The jobs data backs up my anecdotal experience.  The breakout appears to have started about 2 years ago.