Difference between JavaServerFaces and JavaServerPages+Swing ?

[Arnold Peters]

Ok, I read a couple of intros for JavaServerFaces. But I could not figure out:

What is the real difference between JavaServerFaces and the good ol'
JavaServerPages+Swing Programming ?

What can I do with JSF what I cannot with either JSP or Swing components ?

Arni

 

[Greg Smith]

arni,

swing is an applet. jsf is native html.

jsf makes the rendering 'kit' replaceable. so, you get a set of tags
that displays certain objects. it sort of acts like swing in that you
define an object to display on-screen, and the rendering kit decides
how to display it. you can swap in different rendering kits for
different look and feel.

its more like struts than like swing, if that makes any sense.

greg

 

[Chris Smith]

swing is an applet. jsf is native html.

Not exactly. The standard components provided for JSF render in native
HTML. JSF, though, is a framework that allows for maintaining state and
listening for events in pretty much any HTTP servlet-based
request/response environment. I could very easily write a JSF component
that is a Swing applet, assuming the presence of LiveConnect to
communicate the results back to hidden form fields in the HTML page.

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