Jazoon ‘09: Java Server Faces at Credit Suisse
Session: Jsf and Ajax in the Credit Suisse
From: Benjamin Bratkus, Credit Suisse; Micha Kiener, Mimacom AG
It will be interesting to see what CS has been up to with JSF. My last JSF project finished early in 2008. I look back to it with pleasure not primarily because we used JSF but because we really got to use all of the key JEE features under Glassfish – which worked sweetly. JSF (which included facelets), on the other hand…
CS began with JSF in 2004. Corporations begin what they are, this resulted in a pilot (2005). Release 1 of their app took place in 2007. Since then CS claims to have one of the biggest JSF-based component libraries around.
Framework must support:
- Realtime data
- Handle huge data sets
- AJAX and JavaScript due to security aspects
…and must achieve acceptance by various architects.
The speakers also used ICEFaces to achieve the required level of interactivity and security. Specifically: Direct-to-DOM rendering (D2D), page level AJAX on existing components, AJAX Push capabilities.
Key to achieving efficient push: Asynchronous server push, which will apparently become standardised in the next version of ICEFaces. This approach frees up threads on the server-side, which is obviously essential for scalability.
Summary: Good talk, competent speakers. I still feel sorry for the average AJAX developer, who despite frameworks like ICEFaces is confronted with myriad non-trivial technical details. Plus, I imagine CS is not confronted with the other big pain for browser-based RIA: Multiple browsers.
