Fragment, (Snippet, Slice, Brick, Pagelet, Partlet, Slicelet) ?
The "binary" content returned, it's indeed "complete", not "partial",
but maybe the problem (and user confusion) is not with the naming, but
the fact that "Partial" renders non-Ajax binary content too? For those
binary resources, a much better name could be e.g. "Resource", so
E.g. Something like
public class Partial extends/implements Resource {
...
}
thus for "complete" binary responses to return a Resource, not a Partial?
Could this be an approach?
Not sure that Resource is the proper name though. It might be binary
content that is generated on the fly.
"Resource would be the "Browser"/"User" view on that generated content -
being static or dynamic. The same way a HTML Page is the same from the
Browser/User perspective even if it's dynamically created or not.
The same wording seem to be used by REST and RESTful web services (what
comes back is a "resource")
Both JSF and Wicket have settled on Behaviors so I think we should leverage it
as well.
That was the first issue mentioned to me by some users: it's just too
Wicket like :).
Callbacks
might be more familiar to programmers but not as a means to handle Ajax
requests. Callbacks are
normally used for inter object invocations not handling browser requests.
Something familiar to most Windows users (but present in many
programming languages) might be "Handle" or "AjaxHandle".
Adrian.
