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As soon as I saw Facelets I was a happy man.

I have always hated:

<h:form>
<h:dataTable value="#{widgetService.widgetDataModel}" var="widget">
    <h:column>
	<h:commandLink action="#{widgetService.delete}" immediate="true">
	    <h:outputText value="Delete" />
	</h:commandLink>
    </h:column>
    <h:column>
	<f:facet name="header">
	    <h:outputText value="Name" />
	</f:facet>
	<h:outputText value="#{widget.name}"/>
    </h:column>
    <h:column>
	<f:facet name="header">
	    <h:outputText value="Description" />
	</f:facet>
	<h:outputText value="#{widget.description}"/>
    </h:column>
    <h:column>
	<f:facet name="header">
	    <h:outputText value="Cost" />
	</f:facet>
	<h:outputText value="#{widget.cost}"/>
    </h:column>
</h:dataTable>
</h:form>

And, moving back to just normal HTML with the odd jsfid attribute, class attribute, etc... felt at home.

If I was writing my own JSF web app, I would jump to use this view instead of the mess.

However, if you were a huge enterprise, and you were sold on "tooling", then will this play in that world?

NOTE: Taming JSF 1.1 is an interesting article on JSF 1.1.