I could offer help here as well. Cheers, Doru
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Stephan Eggermont <[email protected]> wrote: > After a discussion with Esteban, Nick challenged me to submit a proposal. > An alternative would be to start from Glamour instead of from Magritte 3. > > > Proposal: Extend Magritte 3 to create Naked Objects style interfaces > Level: Intermediate > Possible mentor: Stephan Eggermont > Possible second mentor: Esteban Lorenzano > > Description > > "What if you never had to write a user interface again? What if you could > simply expose your business objects directly to the end user? How would this > affect your productivity? The way you work? The flexibility of your > applications? Is this even possible? Sometimes, yes. This describes a > style of application development, Naked Objects, where you write just the > business objects, and a framework lets your users interact directly with > these objects." (Dave Thomas) > > Technical Details > > Using Magritte we can already build (web/glamour)components representing > attributes of domain objects. What should we add to enable a NO UI? > - (better descriptions of) relationships between domain objects; > - descriptions of actions, with and without parameters; > - build a canvas where multiple domain objects can be shown; > - make the domain objects identifiable with an icon and title; > - add drag-and drop to initiate actions and manage relationships; > - add buttons/drop down menus for actions; > (and a few other things, of which I'll think when these are finished :) > > Benefits to the student > > Learn to use and extend a high quality framework. > Learn and practice interaction design. > Learn about hexagonal architecture. > > Benefits to the community > > The Naked Objects UI enables a very short feedback loop when prototyping a > domain model. It provides a showcase for the superiority of smalltalk as a > rapid development environment. It allows scaling down the engineering effort > needed to create custom solutions. It fits very well with exploratory > modeling. > In a mixed UI style it allows focusing effort on only the critical parts of > the UI. > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
