Explorer-like Tree (XTree): http://raibledesigns.com/struts-menu/velocity-xtree.jsp
Cool Tabs: http://raibledesigns.com/struts-menu/velocity-nicetabs.jsp?Home
Furthermore, the guy who started the project doesn't really contribute anymore - and he's made me an Admin, and I'm the only developer. It might be best to get some of your help over there, rather than duplicating efforts here. It's called Struts Menu right now, but I've renamed the module in CVS to "navigator" and I hope to re-brand it eventually to be not Struts-specific. I don't believe it is now, but there are no examples for initializing it w/o a Struts Plugin. I'm sure both WW and JSF could benefit from a tab library like this one. All attributes for various menu items are configured in an XML file and all HTML is controlled via Velocity (maybe we could do this for the displaytag).
Anyway - take a look and let me know what you think. I've also recently re-done the build process in Maven (and borrowed some stuff from displaytag - thanks!) - so the documentation *is* getting better. I do hope to release the 2.0 version of this library in the next week or so - the project's homepage is at http://struts-menu.sf.net.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is that it might be better to use the brains on this team to enhance existing projects that have "display" functionality, rather than duplicating efforts. Especially when I have admin rights over both projects ;-).
Matt
On Nov 1, 2003, at 12:46 PM, Fabrizio Giustina wrote:
I agree with Andy here...
There are still many features that can be added to the table tab, but there are also new useful tags that can be implemented. Jakarta taglibs are not focused on presentation, so there is still lot to do there.
My proposal for the plan is: - fix known bugs in the current beta and release a stable version - add el support (using Jakarta el package) in the 1.1 version - start developing new tags based on a stable code base, removing everything is now deprecated - all the tags based on el support
I think there is a lot of space for simple tags which can simplify development with jstl. For example tags to output html form elements starting from lists or maps, tags to output menu or tabbed layers, and so on...
fabrizio
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Pruitt Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [displaytag-devel] DisplayTag Mission
I tend to disagree. For starters, there are already a lot of tags that do this, such as Jakarta Taglibs (http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/).
The jakarta tags are really focussed on cfml-like or programming functionality; tags like cache, dbtags, logs, mailer, scrape.
There's not really anything there (outside of the JSTL tags) that are focussed on presentation.
I think we should focus on table design (everything where lists need to be displayed). There is a lot left to be desired, among:
We have a huge brand. We have approx. 10 committers, and many active
contributors, but only a handful of classes. The table tag is important
and large, and should continue to be the centerpiece of the library, but
there is no reason that we can't accomplish much more.
My gut feeling is that although there is still much work to do on the table tag, the main bulk of the work is complete. We don't need 10 developers to just maintain one custom tag.
Tabletag 2.0 may have some important differences. We might move the text formatting code into independent tags, and issue a release that removes support for 1.0 deprecated features.
But, I think the project should have an explicit agreement on general direction before any tabletag 2.0 planning discussions begin.
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