This is the log of the chat room for the live audio chat from November 22, 2004 on web development in JBuilder 2005 with Karl Ewald, a Borland R&D Engineer.

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aohlsson: doychin: "will there be other jbuilder sessions after those that are already annouced on the event calendar?" - Yes. There will be sessions on various topics coming up.
aohlsson: doychin: "I4m looking for somthing similar to Delphi ApplicationEvents.OnIdle in Java Swing. ANy ideas where to look?" - Take a look at javax.swing.timer
jkaster inserts the following link: http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=127
jkaster: That4s the JSF specification
jkaster inserts the following link: http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=252
jkaster: JSR 252: JavaServer Faces 1.2
jkaster inserts the following link: http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=245
jkaster: JSR 245: JavaServer Pages 2.1
jkaster inserts the following link: http://blogs.borland.com/kewald/archive/2004/11/21/1893.aspx
jkaster: Hacking the JSF Palette
jkaster inserts the following link: http://ec.borland.com
jkaster: EventCentral web site
aohlsson inserts the following link: http://ec.borland.com/monthView.jsf
aohlsson: (direct link to a JSF page)
jkaster: doychin: "When we will see similar JSF designer like in ASP.NET or Sun Java Studio Creator?" - The #1 problem: there4s no clear path from an open HTML designer to a flexible JSF designer. Something that worked with very specific tags would be too limiting.
jkaster: doychin: "In my situation I don4t want to spend hours doing raw JSF code but instead I want to make my web interface the way I do it for example with IntraWeb in Delphi and concentrate on my code." - thanks for the follow-up!
jkaster: "What4s different about JSF when compared to previous web application development methods? For example, are things like URLs and bookmarks treated differently?" - answered
jkaster: "what about creation of your own JSF components? How would you do that? Any references or examples for doing this?" - answered
jkaster: yogi: "john/karl, the hans bergstrom book has a couple of examples of components" - thanks!
jkaster: yogi: "here4s a link: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jsvrfaces/index.html" - thanks again
jkaster inserts the following link: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jsvrfaces/index.html
jkaster: "can you talk about how application flow is designed with JSF?" - that4s actually a really powerful tool, similar to the struts paradigm. You have nagivation rules and cases.
jkaster: davidi: "How do I choose when to use Servlets, JSP, Struts, or JSF? or always use JSF?" - that IS a really good question.It does depend on the kind of application you4re building.
jkaster: davidi: "How do you deploy JSF applications?" - just like any other Java web application. You produce an archive for it and drop it on the server.
jkaster: davidi: "What do you think is missing in the current JSF spec?" - the design time support
jkaster: davidi: "Is JSF tied too closely to JSP?" - The spec itself is very flexible. Some implementations are tie them together.
jkaster: doychin: "How you see the development of JSF component market in short term? When to expect better third party support?" - the specification for design-time support is really important for the third party market to take off
jkaster: davidi: "Are there any version dependent issues for developers/deploying JSF (I think JSF is up to version 1.1.01 )?" - there4s a tie between JSF and JSTL, so you4ll have to know supported versions

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doychin: yes I heard it
doychin: is there any body here that could answer one Swing question?
doychin: it is so quiet
doychin: I mean there i s just few people to listen to the session
doychin: ofcourse I hear while you talk
yogi: it4s working
doychin: I suppose that most of JBuilder people don4t check BDN site or other Borland resources
doychin: it is not like Delphi community
doychin: thank you for the nice chat ;-)