While it would cut down on the amount of line noise in the code, I see this
as being somewhat fragile and I would avoid it in my code. Introducing a
dependency between your code structure and your CSS would make it much more
difficult to change things and refactor without breaking. I tend to hate
anything that makes refactoring difficult, as I find the maintenance phase
of an application is by far the lengthiest part.
We actually did something similar to this in our codebase. We had CSS names
auto-generating from the class name of the view/widget. While it did reduce
some line noise, I found out that it made refactoring break all of the CSS.
This made me not want to refactor things, which is evil. I've almost gotten
rid of all of it by now, and will never go back.
My current way of reducing this overhead is a simple Widget factory object.
VerticalPanel mainPanel = new
WidgetUtility().createVerticalPanel("cssClassOne");
Not really auto-generated or anything, but it cleans up the code, and
doesn't rely on any magic.
-Ben
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