The whole existence of J2EE 5.0 stems from the needs of the community and the developers on the ground. Virtually every single specification under that umbrella has been revved either through pressure from users, or with the goal of allowing users to do what they do better. The one amazing exception to this rule is Java Server Faces. To date, I have yet to see a single positive review of this spec that comes from a non-Struts user. WebWork, Tapestry, Spring, and pretty much every non-Struts framework users scoff and laugh at JSF. It’s ugly, it’s not intuitive, and it is hellbent on the Microsoft style approach; fuck the users and force them to use clever tools.

While this wouldn’t have been surprised a year or two ago (many of the specs were run the same way, driven by a few lunatics with bizarre needs rather than actual Real People), it is simply unacceptable these days.

I won’t go into the details of why JSF is crap.

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