Am Dienstag, 15. Mai 2007 schrieb Philipp Bracher:
Should we use FreeMarker for all Dialogs and Controls instead of
that clumsy
HTML inside the Java classes as DialogMultiSelect is already doing
for some
HTML?
Yes we should! Till now we didn't go for it because we will re-
implement the dialogs/controls completely. But since we are waiting
for that step to get happen since a long time we can start extracting
the html code. Feel free to process them stepwise. This will
facilitate the process of rewriting anyway.
I'm no longer sure if it makes sense to extract the HTML. If we
keep the
custom controls and dialogs it would make sense, but if we drop it
in favour
of a standardized (JEE) component-based framework the work is quite
useless.
Well,.. we would have the extracted HTML already. But it is not that
important.
After researching the last day to find out which possibilities are
there, I
came to the conclusion that JSF comes close to what we need.
The draft for 2.0 (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314) looks
promising and
tries to eliminate a lot of known disadvantages of prior versions.
Which plans to reimplement the dialogs and controls do you have at
Magnolia?
...
Ok, I searched Jira after writing that and found MAGNOLIA-588 where
you
(Philipp) stated: "we use JSF!". Is there something in svn yet? Did
you marry
JSF and FreeMarker?
There was a first PoC in the sandbox:
http://svn.magnolia.info/svn/sandbox/magnolia-jsf
Can we wait until Q1/Q2 2008 when JSF 2.0 should be
ready?
There is no concrete plan but this dialogs annoy me more and more. I
hope I/we can work on that soon. The most of the changes in JSF 2.0
are related to the usage in jsps (the part we wanted to drop anyway).
When we start we will reevaluate facelets which looks like a good
alternative.
https://facelets.dev.java.net/
Philipp Bracher
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