Speed up your JSF-based Seam Application by Two Orders of Magnitude
March 01, 2009
JavaServer Faces (JSF) has a reputation for having poor performance. Some claim that this "runtime tax" is simply the cost of using a component-based abstraction layer. After focused research, I have determined that by following a handful of best practices, you can get your JSF data tables to perform almost as well as hand-crafted HTML while still being able to retain the benefits of developing with an event-driven programming model. In this two-part article published on JSFCentral, I identify some performance problems that occur when using JSF UI components, Seam components, and the EL carelessly, and then present, through a series of four lessons, ways to eliminate these problems one-by-one until you have observed a remarkable, two orders of magnitude improvement in performance.
