Bruno
On 11/6/06, Matthias Wessendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
cool stuff,
perhaps you wanna check the trunk of plugis, since I added some types
for support.
like float/double/number
-M
On 11/5/06, Bruno Aranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just committed the changes needed in the myfaces branch to start
> writing the XMLs to autogenerate the components with the awesome
> maven-faces-plugin (which comes from the trinidad project). I have done some
> basic modifications to that plugin [1] to be able to generate myfaces code
> (compliant to the spec), so it can generate all the api components, and also
> the tag classes. The plugin needs still work to generate the convertee and
> validator tag classes, but it is usuable (I think) to start writing the XMLs
> for the components). When the converter/validator tag generators are
> implemented, the plugin should be merged with the one in the trinidad
> faces-1_2 branch and then we should decide the way to put this plugin
> somewhere, available to myfaces 1.2. Now it is using a version that I have
> in my repository in people.apache.org, so it is possible to do myfaces 1.2
> using this plugin.
>
> Generate the new components is as *simple* as writing the XMLs defining the
> components. The UIComponent has been already implemented and now it is
> autogenerated. A good thing about this plugin, is that you can merge an
> existing template (a class) with the code autogenerated by the plugin, so
> you can include specific component/tag behaviour. For the UICommand see the
> UICommandTemplate in core/api/src/main/java_templates.
>
> A new module has been created, called myfaces-build, which contains all the
> XMLs. The core modules (api and impl) uses the plugin now. In api, to
> generate the components, and in impl to create the faces-config.xml file,
> the tags and the taglib. To do the different tasks, different goals from the
> maven-faces-plugin are called. A good thing about this plugin too, is that
> it will allow to create a taglib file for facelets automatically.
>
> Now it is the time to write good XMLs for the components, with its
> properties well-documented, so we have a more comprehensive source code for
> faces 1.2.
>
> Eventually, this plugin could be used to generate the tomahawk library and
> the api components for myfaces 1.1. Extending the plugin is
> straight-forward.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruno
>
> [1]
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/adffaces/branches/myfaces-1_2-maven-faces-plugin
>
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