worldnet
05-06-2009, 04:13 PM
I'm working on a project and I'm trying to decide between JSF and GWT. I have read up on JSF and so far I rather like it, particularly the ways you can build your own components and overwrite renderers.
Now I need some Ajax features such as drag and drop and autocomplete. I have looked into richfaces and my impression has been that it seems almost painfully slow (at least that was my impression when looking at their demo).
Also, while reading up on Ajax most Ajax books praise DOM manipulation as a way to make Ajax effective. Do I understand this correctly that GWT components are faster because they are mostly client side while JSF is serverside? Does JSF use any DOM manipulation? How do I steer it if I were to write my own component? Is that what subview does?
Now I need some Ajax features such as drag and drop and autocomplete. I have looked into richfaces and my impression has been that it seems almost painfully slow (at least that was my impression when looking at their demo).
Also, while reading up on Ajax most Ajax books praise DOM manipulation as a way to make Ajax effective. Do I understand this correctly that GWT components are faster because they are mostly client side while JSF is serverside? Does JSF use any DOM manipulation? How do I steer it if I were to write my own component? Is that what subview does?