RE: Re: Facelets 1.2

I'm going to jump into this one and share my experience with the project.  We have some special needs from a templating system (I won't get into them here.)  We currently have an internally modified version of Tiles that we use with our Struts application.  We want to move our development to Seam/Facelets, but we need to be able to support the same functionality.  There are a few changes to Facelets that would make this much easier.  For example, there are a couple classes (can't recall off of the top of my head) that are final that we could subclass to fit our needs.  I've verified this by building my own version of Facelets and building a small prototype.  It would also be nice if our custom resource resolver was always called ( it doesn't seem to be for source tags, or when referring to a template .)

Even if we didn't have these needs, I would still have concerns about using Facelets for our new projects.  When planning a project, I like to be sure that if we run across a bug in the libraries we are using, it will get fixed.  We're willing to fix bugs, but I haven't seen a process for getting patches applied.

Unfortunately (or fortunately), since Facelets is so much better than JSP when using JSF, we're faced with the potential of managing our own internal branch of Facelets if we need to make changes.  We don't like this, but we'll probably end up doing it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Robinson [andrew.rw.robinson@...]
Sent: Tue 5/29/2007 11:17 AM
To: users@...
Subject:  Re: Facelets 1.2

Why do you need facelets 1.2? What in 1.1.x doesn't fit your requirements?

Facelets has been really stable for us and I haven't been waiting for
a new release at all. In fact, I was perfectly happy on 1.0.14 until
another 3rd party control required us to upgrade to 1.1.x.

The only concern should be bug fix turn around time I would think and
not new features. In that case I haven't seen any bug fixes in quite a
while, but then again I haven't hit any of the bugs.

-Andrew

On 5/29/07, mike.sauer@... <mike.sauer@...> wrote:
>
> For those of us evaluating facelets for recommendation for use in our
> organizations it is troubling that questions such as these regarding the
> status/roadmap of facelets go unanswered.  Can anyone please provide some
> reassurance and updates?
>
> >On 5/22/07, Jason Suplizio <suplizio@...> wrote:
>  >
> >I need to know that as well (even a ballpark). We're putting a timeline
>  >together for facelets adoption and this is very important to us.
>  >
>  >
>  >On 5/22/07, Ian Springer <ian.springer@...> wrote:
>  >>
>  >> Hello Jacob,
>  >>
>  >> What new features are planned for Facelets 1.2 and is there an estimate
>  >> for when it will be released?
>  >>
>  >> Thanks.
>  >> Ian
>
>

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