Good job Bruno. Looks like a lot of work. Dennis Byrne
>-----Original Message----- >From: Bruno Aranda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, November 5, 2006 01:52 PM >To: 'MyFaces Development' >Subject: [Faces 1.2] - Prepared layout for component autogeneration in the >myfaces 1.2 branch > >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 >1.2using 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 >
