I am pretty sure the GUI designer knows how to draw the widgets based on their ancestry. So, I think if we created subclasses from base Swing components with properties from JSF components then they should up nicely in the designer.
I don't think there would be any special req server side to creating swing components without rendering. This is based on the assumption that the components are just javabeans and that they don't have any special plumbing invoked until they are told to draw themselves. Another interesting thing I think is that existing Swing action listeners could possibly be wrapped by Jsf Action listeners which of course would then delegate to the swing listeners. This could be done by the view handler during the translation. On 6/25/07, Gary VanMatre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>From: "Ryan Wynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have been thinking about the best way to go about building a wysiwyg > eclipse editor for jsf views. The only ones I have seen so far create > jsps. > > There are already existing GUI builders for Swing and SWT. Would it > be possible for Clay to handle a view id which is the class name of a > Swing or SWT Panel? I suppose it would just need to build a JSF tree > based on the Swing/SWT tree. Any thoughts on an approach like this? > That's an interesting idea. You know, the visual aspect would only be needed in the GUI builder. I wonder if you could create custom components that extended a base GUI component. Create a like component for each JSF component with corresponding properties. The GUI component would only have to hold the values of the properties and represent the composition of the page. The rendering of the component in design mode might be tricky but maybe it could just render an image of the JSF component. What if the GUI components used annotations to associate with a JSF component? On the clay side, we could have a custom handler that would map a jsfid to a swing/swt container. It would only need to instantiate the component to use it's composition to build a JSF tree. The jsfid could be used to override definitions similar to how the HTML mapping works today. Do you think there would be any strange requirements server side to create a swing component but not render it? I believe that swing is not coupled with the OS api but I don't know if the GUI component would require extra resources server side? > Ryan Gary
