That is a nice idea ... I'm actually doing it for GSoC :) ... I haven't got too far because I never wrote a renderkit before but I'm planning on writing renderers this way for all basic myfaces components and the tomahawk ones as well ...
http://code.google.com/soc/asf/appinfo.html?csaid=FE280ED4B49C1166 I'll take a look at what you've put in the sandbox ... It will probably help allot.. On 6/29/07, Catalin Kormos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jurgen Lust < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 28, 2007 9:57 PM Subject: Renderkit using Freemarker templates To: [email protected] Hi, I think most people will agree that writing Renderers for JSF components using the standard tools, i.e. ResponseWriter.startElement and ResponseWriter.writeAttribute etc., is not very straightforward or productive, especially when creating complex components. If you take a look at org.apache.myfaces.custom.schedule.ScheduleDetailedDayRenderer , you'll know what I mean :) One of the great things about Dojo is that you can create templates for your components. Inspired by this, I tried to do something similar for JSF renderers, using Freemarker. I put it in the sandbox, and wrote a replacement HtmlOutputTextRenderer based on it. I know the outputText is a bad example for this, but for complex stuff, this could be really useful. What do you think? Jurgen
