Re: [Rife-users] Componentization at widget level

2005-09-15 Thread Geert Bevin
I already pointed at MS Visual Studio , aka the .net environment for asp pages or whatever its called now, but I know that they are also working towards making AJAX easy, same with some other vendors. In order to be working on something that has all the hype and will not be oldfashioned when

Re: [Rife-users] Componentization at widget level

2005-09-15 Thread Maarten Stolte
Btw, I already pointed at MS Visual Studio , aka the .net environment for asp pages or whatever its called now, but I know that they are also working towards making AJAX easy, same with some other vendors. In order to be working on something that has all the hype and will not be oldfashioned w

Re: [Rife-users] Componentization at widget level

2005-09-15 Thread Geert Bevin
This would be nice. And of course it could have a prefix: Sure, but tell me what you would use the prefix for besides differentiation? If there's no other reason, a suffix would be more consistent. AFAICT currently HTML widgets are bound only to submission parameters, not to anythi

Re: [Rife-users] Componentization at widget level

2005-09-15 Thread F Baube
Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Geert Bevin: > > >So are you thinking something like: > > > > > > > >and then the various inputs/outputs/submissions are detected? > > Something along those lines, yeah. This would be nice. And of course it could have a prefix: AFAICT currentl

Re: [Rife-users] Componentization at widget level

2005-09-15 Thread Geert Bevin
So are you thinking something like: and then the various inputs/outputs/submissions are detected? Something along those lines, yeah. With optional declaration in the site structure to expend the declaration with what is not possible to specify in the class itself (flowlinks, datalinks, in

Re: [Rife-users] Componentization at widget level

2005-09-15 Thread JR Boyens
On 9/15/05, Geert Bevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Instead of > > protected String validSchemas[] { "DocBook", "DITA", "XHTML" }; > > publicvoid setSchema(String s) { .. ] > > publicString getSchema() { .. } > > > > I'd like to say something like > > > > @property("

Re: [Rife-users] Componentization at widget level

2005-09-15 Thread Geert Bevin
Instead of protected String validSchemas[] { "DocBook", "DITA", "XHTML" }; publicvoid setSchema(String s) { .. ] publicString getSchema() { .. } I'd like to say something like @property("readwrite") @enumerated("DocBook","DITA","XHTML") @widget("combobox","edi

Re: [Rife-users] Componentization at widget level

2005-09-15 Thread F Baube
Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Geert Bevin: > > >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 varia

Re: [Rife-users] Componentization at widget level

2005-09-15 Thread Geert Bevin
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 tho

Re: [Rife-users] Componentization at widget level

2005-09-15 Thread F Baube
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 :) This is obvious I guess; all I want to say is that i

Re: [Rife-users] Componentization at widget level

2005-09-15 Thread Maarten Stolte
RIFE users list : questions" Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:41:53 +0200 Subject: [Rife-users] Componentization at widget level Hi, I've been looking at component frameworks since a little while and it seems that the major difference between RIFE and all the rest is that RIFE focuses on com

[Rife-users] Componentization at widget level

2005-09-15 Thread Geert Bevin
Hi, I've been looking at component frameworks since a little while and it seems that the major difference between RIFE and all the rest is that RIFE focuses on componentization and reuse of fragments (portlets), pages and sites. Imho the site structure and embedded elements work very well