Some widely-used request based frameworks started to come along and give hope for a cleaner future, allowing the developer to focus more on the business logic at hand. The potential to easily apply the application business logic in a different type of application was missing because of the business and control logic in the view. Form input was often always a String requiring extensive JavaScript validation to prevent system errors on type conversions.
The standard Servlet and JSP API’s alone frequently left applications open to inconsistent use of MVC and the potential for difficult maintenance issues like the aforementioned JSP.
Those pages that made you want to scream and rip your hair out when you realized that the long-ago-created-by-someone-else JSP that you needed to fix an error in was over 4000 mind-boggling, messy lines of display with business and control logic mingled together (ahem, yes, this may be a specific example, but I will not confirm). Long gone (hopefully) are the days of JSP pages with cumbersome JavaScript and the often frightening potential for embedded Java Scriptlets and business logic. But, nonetheless, I find it interesting.Īs readers are no doubt aware, over time the MVC frameworks for Java have made the building, implementation and maintenance of layered web architectures much quicker and easier. Luckily for my co-workers, that was not the progression. Because if I had, say, suddenly gone from working on a very old-school Java web app many years ago (which may have had very little in the way of MVC usage, been heavy on plain JavaScript in the page and had embedded business and control logic), and then suddenly seen a web component library for the first time, I’m pretty sure that I would have started screaming and jumping up and down in excitement over the possibilities.
#DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRIMEFACES AND ICEFACES HOW TO#
Originally, I thought I might give a little tutorial on how to use some of the components, but I’ve had enough people ask “What is ICEFaces?” that I thought it might be nice to step back to the 1,000-foot level and take a look at what component libraries are in the grand scheme of Java development.įirst, in order to get to what component-based products offer a developer, I thought it might be fun to look a little bit at the evolution of the Java MVC frameworks over the last 10-12 years. This was the first time I have had the opportunity to look at some of the component-based libraries and to work with JSF. I have recently had the opportunity to work on an application utilizing ICEFaces ICE components and have been learning more about the product.
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