Thanks to both for your responses and feedbacks and I will try to
answer some of the questions regarding the contribution.
(a)
Adobe Flex has been open sourced through MPL [as noted in a previous
thread]. But since I still wanted to be cautious; I have asked the
users to download the free Adobe Flex SDK when using these components.
(b)
It is true that the contribution relies on Adobe Flex's SDK in
compiling the mxml file to swf file and that the contribution is
inherently dependent upon Flex, but the idea and desire for this
contribution is to glue Adobe Flex to JavaServer Faces components.
This way:
(1) Users can still perform the binding of data to managed beans
on the server side for their RIA.
(2) Users can include swf into their regular applications without
performing anything outside of Java.
(3) Users can create apps with mixture of Flash, JavaScript, and
HTML with absolute abstraction.
Also, since it generates the preMxml, Mxml, and SWF files to the
directories, debugging is made easy.
(c)
I assume that the group which will maintain this code will increase in
number, because personally I think it to be one of the areas that has
a lot of potential and do think that it will be able to bring a lot of
additional ideas to the project. For example, I initially wanted to
create components that detect the browser setting and either direct
application to components based on Dojo or Adobe Flex, but thought
this would be better for separation and perhaps in the future there
could be components that performs this action.
(d)
As for this one, I was hoping if I could get some feedback on where
the contribution should be placed at, if it is to be accepted.
Anyway, thanks to both as I appreciate the feedback!!!
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Jihoon Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was hoping if someone can take a look at a recent contribution that
> I have made to the sandbox and see if it is something that I should
> spend more of my free time with=>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TOMAHAWK-1250
>
> I have detailed much about the contribution within the Jira, but in a
> nutshell it is to give users capability in creating Adobe Flex
> components as MyFaces JSF components. So users would create the
> components as normal JSF components and the contribution will create
> the necessary SWF files and etcetera and link the values of the
> components back to the managed beans using JSON+Javascript and
> etcetera.
>
> One caveat is that users will need to download the free Adobe Flex SDK
> to C:\Program Files\flexSDK or /usr/local/bin/flexSDK [haven't tested
> on linux yet].
>
> I thought it would be an interesting set of components and if it is
> something that seems to have some potential I will fine tune the code
> more and give additional capabilities within the components. I have
> tried to keep to some of the standards within the myfaces project by
> including tons of .xml files for tld attributes and have attached a
> patch for set of files and a zip for others [since there exists
> multiple directories and files within them].
>
> Thank you!!!
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Ji Hoon Kim
>
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Sincerely,
Ji Hoon Kim
