Jason Lee 2008-04-17

Today, Ryan Lubke committed code to the Mojarra tree that will allow a JSF developer to prototype and/or develop just about every JSF artifact using Groovy . When deployed to the server in development mode, the Groovy file can be changed on disk, and the changes will be picked up automatically, allowing one to avoid the compile/package/deploy cycle that can make Java web development so tedious. Once the artifact is "done," the Groovy source can be copied to a Java source file and compiled (or the build process can compile the .groovy files to .class files) for production deployment. This could be a really nice feature for component development, for example.

For more details, including a sample NetBeans project, visit Ryan's entry .

All around, a very, very cool enhancement. Great work, Ryan!