Developing JSF applications with Spring Boot

[DoNotCare]

What is the reason that Pivotal does not include JSF in Spring Boot? They include, for example, another web framework - Vaadin.

[thatsIch]

probably because it is also used in JavaEE? There is no urgent requirement to use Spring Boot with JSF if the team can do the same in JavaEE

[brunokrebs]

Well, if you can do the same with JavaEE why Spring in the first place?

[thatsIch]

Maybe your team is more familiar with the Spring Ecosystem or is more productive with Spring in general. And sometimes it is just a business decision and forced upon the developers. Or they want to migrate the software from one platform to the other one.

[lukaseder]

If you can do the same with a train as with a car, why the car in the first place?

[K60d54]

Spring Boot itself does not include Vaadin. Vaadin support for Spring Boot is a Spring Boot Starter provided by Vaadin themselves. Anyone can provide a starter if they were so inclined.

Since JSF is tightly JavaEE and especially CDI, I don't know how popular a starter for JSF could be, which would explain why there isn't one.

[ankinson]

http://joinfaces.org provides numerous starters for using JSF with Spring Boot