If you read TSS you probably have already seen this thread. I am really excited about this concept. I had a discussion last year with a person from IBM at Colorado Software Summit about using flash as the front end for JSF. Not sure that our conversation had anything to do with the Faces for Laszlo work but it is great to see it taking shape.

From my limited look at the samples that come with the download (why doesn't it work with Eclipse and the WTP anyway?) I'm not so sure that the model is right but is is a start.

Here is some sample code that creats a laszlo thing

<laszlo:component id="datagridApp" width="480" height="180">
    <laszlo:clientDataBridge name="dataset1" modelName="company"
                             modelIndex="department" />
    <laszlo:eventBridge id="eb1" eventSource="datagrid1.grid1"
                        eventName="onselect" modelName="company"
                        onEvent="selectEmployee(thisObj,thisEvent)" />
    <![CDATA[
        <include href="faces4laszlo/lzx/tutorial/employeeDatagrid.lzx"/>
        <employeeDatagrid id="datagrid1" width="480" height="180" 
                          datapath="dataset1:/department"
                          contentdatapath="employee" canAddDelete="false"/>
    ]]>
</laszlo:component>

The thing I find interesting is that the laszlo stuff is simply referencing the component which is still created via the xml bindings. I think it would be cool to have the whole thing converted over to JSF. In other words instead of rendering the view as HTML render it as Flash via Laszlo. I've not spent enought time to really think this through but I'm sure I could make it work given enough time ;-)

I'll be upgrading in the next couple of days to get rid of the spam comments, till then I'm turning them off because of the dozens of comments posted here each day.

I'll also blog soon about the cool stuff I'm doing at Virtuas too, I promise :-)

Well JavaOne 2005 is finally over and I had a great time! The kick off of Virtuas was great fun and I think we have some great leads!

One of the best parts of the trip was Aliotos on Fisherman's Wharf. I've included a picture here that I took while we were waiting for our table to be ready.

I'll report some more of what Wednesday was like along with an over all report of the show early next week but I wanted to get the photo up.