Sun announces the creation of Project Woodstock.
Woodstock is a new Java.net open source project that provides an extensive set of JavaServer Faces (JSF) components for web application developers to build enterprise level applications, and can be fully drag-and-drop enabled within NetBeans 5.5 and its Visual Web Pack.
According to Sun, “Project Woodstock components range from navigation (Tree, Tab, Breadcrumb) to selectors (ListBox, AddRemove) to date management (Calendar, Scheduler) to a Masthead (with Alarm and Job Status notification) to a Wizard and also a very extensible Table (with sorting, filtering and easy data connection setup).”
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What do you plan on using: Woodstock JSF, Apache MyFaces, ICEFaces, AJAX4jsf framework, or other? Please share below.
Feb 16, 06:37 pm
Which one to use? This really depends on what is best supported in NetBeans. If Sun only makes the drag-and-drop and other advanced capabilities available for the Woodstock components and not the other frameworks then I would naturally be inclinded to use Woodstock. From what I’ve seen online there will also be better Ajax support in the JSF components used by NetBeans Visual Web Pack (which I now assume is referring to Woodstock).