Speaking at JSFOne

Kito Mann is starting a new conference called JSFOne and I’ve been invited to be a speaker. I’m going to be covering some of the work that we’ve done on the JSR-301 Portlet Bridge as well as some advanced topics with JSF and Portlets.

Although for many, Portlet compatibility is a secondary concern, I’ve seen a few innovative applicaiton suites that have been able to utilize portlet technology to increase productivity and ease of use. JSF integration with these environments was originally thought to be fairly straight forward but when people began using JSF within a Portlet environment, they soon realized how wrong this assumption was.

As such, the Portlet world and JSF’s role as a view technology within that world is currently in a state of transition. Many JSF developers find programming portlets cumbersome and hard to understand. I’m hoping in these sessions to belay those fears and to help people to understand that Portlet Development in JSF need not be difficult, but it is different. Much of the complexity of using JSF Development in a portlet environment will hopefully be solved with the 301 bridge and allow us to move forward with enabling companies to leverage these technologies.

~ by scottobryan on June 18, 2008.