Woodstock Java EE web application - migration to standard JSF

Question

I am maintaing rather old web application (around ten views, including a tabbed view) which uses the Woodstock component library, and would like to migrate it to a plain JavaServer Faces.

There are two options:

• rebuild it from scratch as a separate project, or
• migrate the existing views, one by one, in the main (production) version

(of course the second option would happen in a separate version control branch, and changes will be merged to trunk only when they are tested)

I have also read JSF - Component Libraries, migrate or not migrate?, which is related to the Woodstock component library, and gives many reasons for a migration.

Do I understand correctly that Woodstock uses JSF 1 standards for UI / code binding so I only would need to care about replacing Woodstock components with corresponding components in a JSF 1 standard implementation?

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Additional information: the web application currently uses JavaServer Pages (JSP) for thew views.

Answer 1

Do I understand correctly that Woodstock uses JSF 1 standards for UI / code binding

Actually woodstock components creates JavaScript DOM , instead of HTML unlike JSF

I only would need to care about replacing Woodstock components with corresponding components in a JSF 1 standard implementation

Correct, but need not be JSF 1

Additionally, you can use any MVC framework for that matter through which you can convert your JSP elements (woodstock components) to the ones which generate HTML