RE: [OT] Getting started is confusing [was] Re: Need advice bet ween Shale or Struts-Faces

[Gary VanMatre <gv...@comcast.net>]

>From: "Garner, Shawn" <sh...@pearson.com> 
>
> First thing I did was to create a helper base class with methods like the 
> following 
> 
> public Object getRequestParameter(String key) 
> { 
> return 
> FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequestParameterMap().get(key); 
> } 
> 

The shale AbstractFacesBean class has a very similar helper method called getBean().

String init = (String) ((Map) getBean("param")).get("init");

About the same number of characters to type.  I've not worked in a portal environment but it's 
reassuring to know that an application built in JSF can run in either without retooling.  
That seems worth a couple key strokes. 

Gary

> Doesn't seem very hard to me. 
> Shawn