Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-25 Thread Dakota Jack
Okay. I guess this is not the OO world. That was my point. This is not OO. If you are happy with that, good. We agree! On 11/24/05, Alexandre Poitras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't agree. In the OO world it is true but here using inheritance allow you to specify some default values

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-24 Thread Dakota Jack
Composition and inheritance are two antithetical patterns. One of themost important things you can do is to favor composition over (instead of) inheritance. If they are being mixed up here, this is an architectural nightmare. On 11/22/05, Gary VanMatre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi So how

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-24 Thread Dakota Jack
Composition and inheritance are fundamentally antithetical. If they are being mixed up here, this is a design sinkhole. On 11/22/05, Gary VanMatre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi So how would you implement composition, with inheritance, using Clay instead of Tiles?. I'm a big fan of

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-24 Thread Alexandre Poitras
I don't agree. In the OO world it is true but here using inheritance allow you to specify some default values that you can override (think about Tile). This is impossible in composition unless you have some substitution mechanism. On 11/24/05, Dakota Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Composition and

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-23 Thread Alexandre Poitras
recommend you look at facelets (https://facelets.dev.java.net). Regards, David -Original Message- From: Alexandre Poitras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:17 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [shale] Design questions I kind of agree with you

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-23 Thread Alexandre Poitras
be to implement something portal like. Hermod -Original Message- From: Alexandre Poitras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 5:17 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [shale] Design questions I kind of agree with you Gary. I just love Tiles powerful features

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-23 Thread hermod.opstvedt
code, and then in my view I would test for this and act accordingly - See the destinction? Hermod -Original Message- From: Alexandre Poitras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 1:16 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [shale] Design questions Hi hermod, I

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-23 Thread Alexandre Poitras
: Re: [shale] Design questions Hi hermod, I think you refer to my other post. The author just took the same title. Confusing he? I totally agree with your suggestions. Not a bad idea in my mind but maybe some architectural considerations keep developpers from doing this (tied to jsp instead

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-23 Thread hermod.opstvedt
Subject: Re: [shale] Design questions I see. I think most of the time you're right. But in some complex situations a tradeoff *might* be better, instead of having a lot of bloating views, you put the logic in the backing bean. Of course, there are always ways of reorganizing your code like by using JSP

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-23 Thread Alexandre Poitras
-Original Message- From: Alexandre Poitras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:17 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [shale] Design questions I kind of agree with you Gary. I just love Tiles powerful features and I would like to use it in my JSF

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-23 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 11/23/05, Alexandre Poitras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok the problem with Rolodex seems fixed in today build :) But my french translation doesn't seem to be there (I can't find the file). Craig just committed it about an hour ago, and it will show up in the 20051124 nightly build.

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-23 Thread Gary VanMatre
Hi Thanks for your clarification Craig. So, if I read you correct, Tiles and Clay go hand in hand. Use Tiles for assembling the pages, so that you only have to write jsp/html files containing the specific content (not the whole page). Then use Clay to do the work writing of the

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Nwokoma, Sampson
Is it possible to develop Shale application using Java Studio Creator? Oma. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread hermod.opstvedt
] Design questions On 11/21/05, Alexandre Poitras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! First of all, congratz on the good job. Shale looks very promising. We are currently implementing JSF in my organization. I already knew about Shale but I hadn't checked its progress in a while and I must say I am

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Alexandre Poitras
Thank for the advices Craig . I'll do some pratical experiments with Shale now. By the wat, I have found an interesting post on Sun Java forums about backing beans design. Here's the link in case some other users are interested in the subject :

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Levitt, David, Bookspan
Subject: Re: [shale] Design questions On 11/21/05, Alexandre Poitras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! First of all, congratz on the good job. Shale looks very promising. We are currently implementing JSF in my organization. I already knew about Shale but I hadn't checked its progress in a while

[shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Nwokoma, Sampson
Is it possible to develop Shale using Java Studio Creator? Oma - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Dakota Jack
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Craig McClanahan Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 6:15 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [shale] Design questions On 11/21/05, Alexandre Poitras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! First of all

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 11/22/05, Nwokoma, Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to develop Shale using Java Studio Creator? Oma At this point, the application models supported by Shale and Creator 2 are similar but not identical. You'll find that Creator's page beans are very similar in functionality

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Nwokoma, Sampson
Craig, Thank you a lot for your reply. I respect you a lot so it is with all due respect that I asking this: why crave out an entire new framework as shale when JSF should have been extended to take care of whatever shale represents. I am learning shale, and I am grudging about having to code the

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread David G. Friedman
, David -Original Message- From: Nwokoma, Sampson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 12:16 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: mailto:craigmcc@gmail.com Subject: RE: [shale] Design questions Craig, Thank you a lot for your reply. I respect you a lot so

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Nwokoma, Sampson
List Subject: RE: [shale] Design questions Oma, If you are having trouble coding tags, which suggests you are using Shale's Clay feature, you might want to check out Facelets which has similar display properties to CLay. The URL is https://facelets.dev.java.net and I found it much easier to learn

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread David G. Friedman
, which is an integrated development environment. Regards, David -Original Message- From: Nwokoma, Sampson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 12:35 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [shale] Design questions David, What is the difference between Java

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 11/22/05, Nwokoma, Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig, Thank you a lot for your reply. I respect you a lot so it is with all due respect that I asking this: why crave out an entire new framework as shale when JSF should have been extended to take care of whatever shale represents.

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Nwokoma, Sampson
Where can I get a good tutorial on Shale? Oma - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, November 22, 2005 1:24 pm, Craig McClanahan said: For the long term, I absolutely agree with you ... and Shale will certainly serve as good research and development for what should be standardized in JSF 2.0. Craig, that's an interesting comment, and I'd like to ask you to expand on

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 11/22/05, Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, November 22, 2005 1:24 pm, Craig McClanahan said: For the long term, I absolutely agree with you ... and Shale will certainly serve as good research and development for what should be standardized in JSF 2.0. Craig,

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Thanks Craig, your comments will help in my deliberations at the moment, I appreciate you taking the time to reply :) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com AIM: fzammetti Yahoo: fzammetti MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, November 22,

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Nwokoma, Sampson
Personally, I think that would be a great idea :-). However, I would suggest a slight terminology change, because every Shale app is also JSF specific. It would be more an issue of do you want to use the Shale value add features *in addition to* those of pure JSF. Yes! Yes! You got it correct

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 11/22/05, Craig McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a Struts project, once Shale gets to a General Availablility release (which *definitely* won't be true for at least the first few milestones), it will share the Struts community passion for backwards compatibility. However, even today,

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Gary VanMatre
Hi So how would you implement composition, with inheritance, using Clay instead of Tiles?. I'm a big fan of Tiles and think that Clay and Tiles have their own niches. I see tiles as a tool for assembling page fragments in a reusable way. Clay is at a more granular level. It's focus is

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread Alexandre Poitras
I kind of agree with you Gary. I just love Tiles powerful features and I would like to use it in my JSF application (but I would take a deep look at Tapestry way of doing it to see if it is truly necessary). Anyway, I started to have concerns after watching the JavaOne 2005 presentation Extreme

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread hermod.opstvedt
, 2005 4:05 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [shale] Design questions Composition is a preferred design instead of inheritance. So, implementing composition, with inheritance does not make much sense. On 11/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi So how would you

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread hermod.opstvedt
them self, utilizing Clay component definitions and their corresponding jsfid's in those pages. Hermod -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:49 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [shale] Design questions Hi

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread hermod.opstvedt
Hi That should of course read: Thanks for your clarification -Gary- Sorry ! Hermod -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 6:25 AM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: RE: [shale] Design questions Hi Thanks for your

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread David G. Friedman
List Subject: Re: [shale] Design questions I kind of agree with you Gary. I just love Tiles powerful features and I would like to use it in my JSF application (but I would take a deep look at Tapestry way of doing it to see if it is truly necessary). Anyway, I started to have concerns after watching

RE: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-22 Thread hermod.opstvedt
be to implement something portal like. Hermod -Original Message- From: Alexandre Poitras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 5:17 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [shale] Design questions I kind of agree with you Gary. I just love Tiles powerful features and I

[shale] Design questions

2005-11-21 Thread Alexandre Poitras
Hi! First of all, congratz on the good job. Shale looks very promising. We are currently implementing JSF in my organization. I already knew about Shale but I hadn't checked its progress in a while and I must say I am impressed so far. Actually, I stumbled upon the project while I was looking for

Re: [shale] Design questions

2005-11-21 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 11/21/05, Alexandre Poitras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! First of all, congratz on the good job. Shale looks very promising. We are currently implementing JSF in my organization. I already knew about Shale but I hadn't checked its progress in a while and I must say I am impressed so far.