Hi Sergey,
When we started our book project we had set out to create a book that would cover all aspects of JSF component development, not just creating a simple UI component. At the time ADF Faces was still a property of Oracle and we were legally bound to not discuss the internals of it e.g. concerns about IP.
This forced us to come up with new solutions to some of the problems already solved by ADF Faces and other component libraries.
Of the two projects - we actually have a third project D2, but we can leave that out for now [shameless pitch]
- Weblets is the project that solves an issue that for example ADF Faces, MyFaces, Backbase and others have already provided unique solutions for - resource loading. Weblets is solving the resource loading issue with a goal to simplify resource loading not only for component developers, but most importantly for application developers using JSF component libraries.
Mabon on the other hand is a new project that provides a solution that allow component developers to utilize JSF's managed bean facility to deliver data to Ajax-enabled JSF components. This is currently not available in ADF Faces.
We are of course happy to have been able to come up with these solutions and we hope that component developers will like them as much as we do.
- Jonas