The goal of Apache Tobago is to provide the community with a well-designed set of user interface components based on JSF and run on MyFaces or other JSF implementations.
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 of coding HTML, CSS and JavaScript. 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 laying out with HTML tables or other constructs is needed.
The Apache Tobago component library in version 4.5.3 has been released.
Release notes can be found in Jira.
The Apache Tobago component library in version 4.5.2 has been released.
Release notes can be found in Jira.
The Apache Tobago component library in version 2.4.4 has been released.
Release notes can be found in Jira.