Hello JSP developers, We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of TICL (Tag Interface Component Library) 1.0 Beta. TICL is an advanced library of server-side user interface components accessible through JSP(TM) tags. Like a conventional desktop toolkit, the components maintain state and manage interaction logic with the end-user with little or no assistance from the programmer.
Read more about TICL at http://www.kobrix.com/ticl/ticlmain.jsp and check out the online code samples at http://www.kobrix.com/ticl/examples. One of the major goals of TICL is to bring RAD-like development to the WEB platform. Programmers can concentrate on logical functionality and build JSP pages by placing TICL components through tags and responding to user events. Every component is self-contained and manages interaction with the end-user with little or no assistance on the programmer's part. Visual appearance of components is abstracted into a high-level styles framework. The library is tailored more towards WEB application development, rather than content only oriented sites. It is designed to quickly build clean, robust, well-structured and therefore highly maintainable code. It integrates seemlessly into existing JSP applications and it will work on any standard compliant JSP 1.1 container (e.g. Tomcat, Resin) and with fairly recent versions of the popular browsers. Core features are: - A powerful and extensible server-side event model. Component-end user interaction is encapsulated into a well defined set of server-side events. You can of course define event listeners, develop custom events, event filters etc. - Predefined components like panels, tabbed panels, tree views, DHTML menus, table views. Most can perform their interaction with the end-user at the browser through DHTML or by making a trip back to server on every user action (like expanding a tree node or minimizing a panel). - Smart browser handling. A complete framework for dealing with browser (user agent) capabilities, including detection of dynamic properties like connection speed, screen resolution, available plugins etc.; supporting JSP tags; on the fly selection of component rendering based on the current user agent. - A high-level styles framework for complete customization of the look&feel of components. Styles can be organized into themes. An inheritence mechanism of style objects provides for a powerful high-level structuring. The framework allows for a clean separation between look&feel and functional behaviour of GUI elements. No more copy&paste, no more code cluttering with tedious, browser-specific HTML details - consistency of look&feel can be easily achieved by maintaining a single TICL style sheet, a simple XML file, that is applied to all pages in your WEB application. - Full encapsulation of HTML forms, including a file upload component, augmented with things such as server-side command handlers, labels and DHTML tooltips. Form fields are typed, true server-side components. Not limited to the standard HTML form fields, they operate on a high level and custom ones can be developed and plugged into the framework. - A very powerful and easy to use declarative form validation mechanism (both client and server-side). You define validation rules and handlers for invalid forms in a clean, declarative way. The same rules you define can be applied at the client (through automatic generation of the necessary JavaScript) or at the server. Special purpose syntax allows you to easily handle interdependencies between field values. - A Data Objects framework integrated with TICL forms. Allows you to manipulate complex aggregate structures and associate them with forms for automatic mapping to/from form field values and data object fields (e.g. Java beans). A type mapping framework allows you to map any form field type to any Java type. - An integration module for the popular Struts framework is provided also. TICL is FREE for non-commercial and non-govermental use. It comes with an extensive, over 200 pages, Reference Manual. To download it, please goto http://www.kobrix.com and select Downloads from the TICL pulldown menu. If you are not already a TICL user, you may need to register first. We sincerely hope you will enjoy TICL and are looking forward to your feedback! The Kobrix Team. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
