Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Tobago

Tobago: "The goal of Tobago is to provide the community with a well designed set of user interface components based on JSF and run on MyFaces.

Tobago is more than just a tag library. The following statements characterize Tobago and make it different from other frameworks:

* The focus of Tobago is to create business applications without the need for HTML design. The development of Tobago pages follows more the development of conventional user interfaces than the creation of web pages.
* The UI components are abstracted from HTML and any layout information that does not belong to the general page structure. The final output format is determined by the client/user-agent.
* A theming mechanism makes it easy to change the look and feel and to provide special implementations for certain browsers. A fallback solution ensures that as much code is reused for new themes as possible.
* A layout manager is used to arrange the components automatically. This means, no manual layouting with HTML tables or other constructs is needed.

The development of Tobago started in 2002."

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