Short rant for this evening.

Java community, can we please, please, please put JSF to rest?

I just spent 1/2 a day today tracking down a cryptic Illegal Syntax for a Setter. Or some other nonsense like that.

Who in world wrote that error message description?

And what does it mean?

In my case I couldn't set a field to null. So why not say something genius like Cannot set Field to Null? Or Illegal Value, null, for Field fieldname.

It wasn't even a syntax issue, it was the value I was passing in. So why mention Syntax in the error message. Brilliant.

Give me back my lean mean JSPs.