I commited a first draft of the new feature today. don't go crazy, it's still very early on, but here is the general idea, and my motivations:
themes, layouts, skins , branding ..... they all have a lot in common, in fact : I don't know where one ends and the other one begins. So I tried to come up with the most flexible approach. I really like the clean separation of duties that is outlined in css zengarden (http://www.csszengarden.com/) . It separates content from the rest, and gives the web designer the most power over the look and feel. You can find a sample app attached to the JIRA issue (JBTL-17) So here is what a typical portal request looks like: * the portal determines the portal page to render, and calls the portlet container for each portlet on that page * once the portlet content is rendered, the theme takes over * themes are split into three major components: a layout, a theme, and a render set * a layout is a JSP or a Servlet that the portal can request dispatch to. It is the piece that creates the root tag of the response (like HTML) * in case of a jsp. there are tags to render a region of the page, or a particular portlet, and one to inject the theme * in case of a servlet, there is an API to get the same task done (the same API the tags are using) * the region tag gets the list of results containing the rendered portlet content for the portlets on that page region. It then determines the render set for the current content type. * a render set is a collection of classes that implement a defined interface * there are 4 renderer interfaces in a render set (region, portlet window, decoration, and portlet content) * the theme is a set of css, js, and binary files. When the theme tag is injecting the theme content, it actually injects link and script tags * the layout, the renderer set and the theme all work together to get the final markup. * There are some dependencies between all of them, but for now there are no rules: each piece can be switched independently I'll be providing more examples in the next days.... themes are in core/src/main/org/jboss/portal/core/theme/* View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3872970#3872970 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3872970 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ JBoss-Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
