JSF and SWING components

[Shaiju scientia]

Hi,
I came across the following article
http://www.roseindia.net/jsf/actionListener.shtml
Where it showing swing component ,JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Hi"), being rendered using JSF.
Is it possible to use Swing component with JSF ? If this is true, I guess we can have a lot more flexible components and rendered using JSF.
What is the down side of this ? can anybody throw some light?

Shaiju

[sam ky]

Hello,

You shouldn't use swing components for web based applications. Swing is meant for developing window based(thik) client applications. Here in this article, JOptionPane is used just to demonstrate the flexibility of using JSF but you shouldn't use JFrames/JButtons etc to render on browser. JSF has it's own components library for web applications.

Hope it helps.

[Tim Holloway]

Shaiju. you're hurting yourself by not abiding by our naming requirements (http://www.javaranch.com/name.jsp). A lot of us don't bother to answer questions from until people fix their display names. In your case it's cost you at least 2 days.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Swing components are rendered on the server, not on the client. It only works in this case because the client and the server run on the same machine - which will not be the case in real life.

My recommendation is to ignore roseindia.net - it is full of bad code and bad practices.