Hello community,
There are plenty of great frameworks that allow us to marshall entities back
and forth between our POJOs and the DB. Does any know of a way to marshall
entities back and forth from our POJOs and the client side? What I want is to
just point a tag at a java business object and have it render as a POJSO ...
<s:pojso value="#{back.pojo.class}" /> render class ( function )
<s:pojso var="myPojo" value="#{backer.pojo}" /> render instance
<s:pojso var="myPojos" value="#{backer.pojoList}" /> render array
<s:pojso var="myPojos" value="#{backer.pojoMap}" /> render associative array
In order to render an input field w/ the onchange event syncing the value w/
the *client* side entity w/ *no* postback ...
<h:inputText id="zipcode" value="#{backer.pojo.zipCode}" >
<s:valueChangeListener for="myPojo" />
</h:inputText>
<s:pojso var="myPojo" value="#{backer.pojo}" />
There could be lots of facets for the extra stuff ( disable getters/setters,
how deep to walk the POJO graph, which properties to exclude, etc.). I would
envision using bindings for the facets so that application developers do not
have to repeat this across every JSP, or facelet if your initials are M.K. :)
Perhaps there are non-JSF ( or non-Java ) implementations of the concept
already ? How deep does the ADF rabbit hole go?
I am not interested in AJAX method invocation because DWR already does this
good - nor so much getting POJSOS to POJOS ( which JSON kind of does ). I am
more or less trying to "move the conversation" to the browser w/out doing a lot
of grunt work.
Dennis Byrne
