Tuesday, April 10, 2007

JSF Tutorials

Quite annoyed with the Java EE Tutorial's section on JSF. It assumes you're using NetBeans, and begins with having you setup the example using NetBeans without explaining anything. I've been struggling for a while in trying to get the example to work in Eclipse WTP, in vain. Why couldn't the examples have been done with just ANT instead of something IDE-specific?

I'm trying the tutorial from Exadel now. It's still IDE-specific but at least it's on Eclipse (Exadel Studio). It gives me the chance to evaluate Exadel Studio at the same time.

Is there a good tutorial out there that goes over the rudiments and best practices without being IDE-specific?

3 comments:

Dean Berris said...

I faced the same problem when I was learning C++ back then: the book was too VC++ specific in terms of setting up exercises -- that was around 1999/2000 so I wouldn't expect much. Guess it's just too much effort writing generic tutorials that's why books/documentation tend to just choose the easy route.

Just my $0.02 . :)

tomobuddy said...

i do have same problem with you , i must learn from null and try using IDE NetBeans instead of eclipse , then some friends said "it's kind of fun when you try to learn using Java Studio Creator",so i learn it also then another friends of mine promote to use Oracle ADF . Too many frameworks and too many IDE in Java sometimes a little bit confusing , coz u've to figure it out which one is the most appropriate for your application

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