You mention annotations, and that is definitely the way
to go, to move from a procedural style to a declarative.
I note that Rife is using Constraints to implement (in
a JDK 1.4 context) what other frameworks are trying to
do now with 1.5 :)
Indeed :-)
The constraints have one huge benefit though, they function on
instance level and not on class level.
This is obvious I guess; all I want to say is that it
might be relatively easy to make Rife do these things
with annotations instead. Code would be cleaner, and
it would boost the attractiveness of the framework while
still retaining the additional niceties of the Rife API.
Indeed it would not be hard.
You talk about using autodiscovery to detect forms variables
and forms processing methods, and I think that would be great.
I wonder if (for example) it would be useful if an Element
could use annotations to declare the forms variables it needs
and their default widget types, and with the possibility to
declare custom "widget loaders".
Could you expand on this?
FWIW I wonder if you might get some inspirations from Stripes,
a new framework that rolled out recently and uses annotations
very heavily. It got lots of "hey that's cool!" comments, but
The comments I read about it were more "so what?" comments, but
that's beyond the point. I'll definitely look at their annotions
reference.
I haven't read yet any stories about people actually using it.
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=36388
http://stripes.mc4j.org/confluence/display/stripes/Home
http://stripes.mc4j.org/confluence/display/stripes/Annotation
+Reference
Any ideas about how to support events for widget elements (I always
read this like midget, dunno why ;-)), or better ideas to make them
usable in the site structure?
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