>From: "Craig McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 12/29/06, Gary VanMatre wrote: > > > > >From: "Craig McClanahan" > > > > > > I updated a big first pass fixup on the api-stability page (source is > > > framework/src/site/xdoc/api-stability.xml), but the website did not get > > > regenerated and republished as it usually does. Is there something we > > need > > > to do to trigger that? > > > > > > In the mean time, please review the source file for content. A > > particular > > > question for Gary is whether we want to mark any of the " > > > org.apache.shale.clay" APIs as being designed for direct use by an > > > application developer in a webapp, or if that is all supposed to be > > behind > > > the scenes and all you are doing is using the components themselves in > > your > > > view. > > > > > > > I think your right-on to say that the clay component and metadata sources > > are > > the strongest extension points. > > > > I've thought about making interfaces of the config beans so that it would > > be > > easier to define alternate sources for the metadata used to build the > > subtree. > > This is an area that the JSF spec doesn't address and I wonder if it will > > be > > covered in JSF 2? I wouldn't be surprised if we see some templating > > extension > > that is similar to facelets which might be another option for Clay to > > support. > > > It seems likely to me that JSF 2 will deal with non-JSP view handlers in > some fashion, but that's ultimately up to the EG to decide -- and a JSR has > not even been filed yet. > > It might be best to keep the published API based at a Component that is > > loosely defined by various metadata sources. > > > > Please add the "org.apache.shale.clay" package to the public API list. > > > Well, I would ... but there are no classes or interfaces directly in this > package.
Oh, right... How about "org.apache.shale.clay.component". There are two components here. >What I did for the other packages was identify those that had > classes or interfaces you'd expect to import into the Java code in a > webapp. Is there anything like that in Clay? The only thing I can see in > the sample apps is the use of org.apache.shale.util.Messages from > shale-core. > I suppose that you might import these components if you used "binding" to the backing bean but maybe that's assumed with any JSF component. > > Craig > > > > Gary > > > > > Craig
