My two cents:
- Project setup isn't a particularly big deal for me since I can do
this through Maven. If you do make the plugin create the project,
make sure it is flexible enough to handle projects that already exist
and isn't tied to a specific tapestry release.
- Checkout the paid version of IDEA as it offers some nice code
completion features in the template.
- Loom will let you switch back and forth between the .java and the
corresponding .tml file.
- If you want to create something graphical, I'd take a look at how
the WebObjects editor use to work. You may be able to find a
screenshot somewhere. Basically at the bottom of the page, you had a
list of all the property objects that were available for the page.
You could click on one and see all of its properties and drill down
until you found what you were looking for. Then you could drag that
property and drop it on the editor where you wanted it to appear. I
found it to be very convenient even though it wasn't a full WYSIWYG
environment.
Here are three things that would probably give the biggest
productivity gains in order of importance.
1. Switch between .tml and .java files (Loom does this already). It
would be nice if you could open both the .java and cooresponding .tml
side by side rather than just switching between them.
2. Autocomplete for tapestry built in components. So when you type
<t: it comes up with a list you can choose from and then completes it
with the required parameters listed. (There is a how to for setting
this up using the schema and the .jsp editor, but it didn't seem to
work for me last time I tried it.)
3. Autocomplete for custom components. I think there is a how to, to
create a schema to do this using the .jsp editor as well, but I didn't
have any luck with it during the brief time I played with it.
4. Autocomplete of properties from the .java page when editing the
.tml file. When it is setup correctly IDEA does a reasonable job of
this.
5. Some type of drag and drop to put properties from the .java file
into the .tml file. (Could be a GUI, but wouldn't have to be.)
At least those are my thoughts on what would be the most useful features.
Mark
2011/1/26 Gavin Lei <gavingui2...@gmail.com>:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have been involved in Tapestry for years, usually build my project in
> Eclipse. But I can not find fantastic Eclipse plugin for Taperstry. Now, if
> we use Tapestry 5 to build our web project, it is more convinent, but i
> think there is a good editor for Taperstry 5, Tapestry will be much more
> cool.
>
> So i want to build a Eclipse based editor for Tapestry 5, and build it as an
> Google Summer of Code 2011 project, below is my mainly idea, helping for
> your ideas and feedback. If anyone has interest in it, please let me know,
> Thank you :-)
>
> Features:
>
> 1.Tapestry project feature, such as import tapestry 5 libraries, project
> wizards, add default Tapestry package structure and so on.
> In one word, once we create a Tapestry project, it is created with
> required package structure and web.xml content.
>
> 2.One tapestry page includes one Java class file and one HTML based template
> file. It seems like Microsoft's asp.net in Visual Studio somewhere.
> We can edit the java class file and template file together. So, this
> tool supply a convinent editor for tapestry page. It has design view and
> source view.
> I. source view
> we can edit template file source in this view. and this view supply
> property tips and keyword highlight functions.
> For example, there are attributes "testA" and "testB" in its
> cosspending Java class file. If you want to get the property value, you
> should input "${prop:testA}" in template file,this view will supply auto
> complete function for you after you input "${prop:t}",you can select "testA"
> or "testB".
>
> II.design view
> this view is a more powful HTML editor, we can build it on some open
> souce Eclipse HTML editor. Besides,we can set component's property value in
> this view, add listener for components.
> For example, if we double click a form's submit button named
> "submitButton" in this view, it will add a function
> "onSuccessFromSubmitButton" in its cosspending Java class,this function is
> used to handler form submit action.
>
> 3.supply customization feature for Tapestry page editor. For example, we can
> setup different color for different Java web component in template file.
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Best Regards
> Gavin Lei (雷银)
> Email: gavingui2...@gmail.com
>
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