Gracelets is principally a fusion of two main stream technologies,
JSF 1.2 and
Groovy, including direct support for
Facelets. Gracelets is a Domain Specific Language (DSL)
for JSF web application development.
What does Gracelets Offer?
Gracelets provides support for writing JSF views, backing beans and controllers and component libraries using
Groovy. Groovy Closures can optionally be used as an alternative to the Expression Language. Practically all
components can be modified and reloaded without application redeployment, which can speed up JSF view, controller and
component development by at least a three-fold magnitude. Gracelets provides Groovy Bindings allowing you to simply reference your JSF contextual environment. There are extensions
for using Gracelets with JBoss Seam, ICE Faces and other technologies.
What direct benefits will you gain?
Your investment in Gracelets will pay off in JSF development time alone. With Gracelets Controllers you can still keep
development time to a minimum and also maintain the MVC design pattern. Gracelets strives to utilize and integrate
already existing technologies and will soon support JSF 2.0. Your views, controllers and component libraries will be
compatible with newer versions.
Important NEWS
Gracelets 2.0.0.SP2 Released!!
The second service pack release of Gracelets 2.0.0 is now available. Maintenance will continue for this
release so community involvement is definitely and highly encouraged. New development efforts will be directed
towards JSF 2.0 so expect Gracelets 3.0.0 to be integrated with JSF 2.0+ along with Groovy 1.6 and a true DSL
integration framework. Stay tuned!
