Re: Proposal: Make tomahawk stuff 100% RI compliant

[Grant Smith]

Great idea regarding moving the non-compliant Tamahawk components into the sandbox. From my quick scan of open JIRA items, there are a few that relate to conformance. Sean Schofield wrote: Remember, I like the Tiles support too (and said it was a key to my discovering MyFaces) ;-) So I'm not saying we remove it, but that we should consider removing it *or* making it compatible with RI. It sounds like we have enough support for "keeping" it so lets figurre out how to make it work with the RI. Its been a while since I investigated this but I definitely remember there was a problem. Of course if I'm wrong, that's good news. Someone should try it out and prove it. I think it required extensions filter or something like that ... sean On 7/6/05, Manfred Geiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: +1 for making tomahawk 100% RI compliant BUT -1 for removing Tiles support - definitely! Reason: * Tiles support is one of the key features of MyFaces * Tiles support should not (and "is not" AFAIK) RI incompatible Where does it use MyFaces impl stuff? The special JspTilesViewHandlerImpl does not extend any specific base class and uses delegation pattern. The only two references to org.apache.myfaces.* are shared classes, so where is the problem? -Manfred 2005/7/6, Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This proposal might be a bit controversial... I think we should make everything in tomahawk 100% RI compliant and remove anything that is not. We've made (eroneous) claims in the past that the stuff in the old components.jar will work with the RI but there are several exceptions. I think we can get broader usage/acceptance of the tomahawk stuff if we can legitimately claim that it works with any implementation. Rather than dumping everything that does not currently work with the RI, I recommend we move it to the sandbox and perhaps resurrect it when we have the time/interest. There are a few components that have minor RI quirks that I think we can leave in tomahawk but address them ASAP. Other components/extensions have outright dependencies on the myfaces implementation. One major component that should be moved out of tomahawk (IMO) is tiles. Let me start by saying that I like the Tiles stuff and it is one thing that attracted me to MyFaces. But it requires the MyFaces implementation (uses some view controller stuff.) We could refactor it but I am not volunteering for that. If someone else is prepared to refactor then I say leave it in tomahawk an refactor. If not, lets move it to sandbox. David Geary (Tiles guru) just checked in some JSF Tiles support into the Shale project. If we dropped Tiles from tomahawk (and sandbox) that might not be the end of the world. There are other components as well that are not RI compliant. We should make a list and figure out what we want to do with them. At a *minimum* we should list the stuff in tomahawk that does *not* work with the RI and publicize that list. sean .