Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!

2005-04-19 Thread William Connor
Based on my experience porting the Struts tags to AJAX/SWF (swf.dev.java.net), I would agree with Craig that the existing Struts tags would be sufficient; however, tweaking the event handler attrs, as in SWF, does provide some simplification. For example (in SWF), w/ o the tweak we would nee

Re: ANN: SWF In place Page Updating (IPU) for Struts

2005-04-06 Thread William Connor
On Apr 6, 2005, at 9:55 PM, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Looks interesting! I'm going to have to look at this in much more detail first chance I get. One question... I saw this comment on the overview... "For reasons cited by many, JSF has fallen short of our needs and we were disappointed to see

ANN: SWF In place Page Updating (IPU) for Struts

2005-04-06 Thread William Connor
We are pleased to announce the 0.6 release of the Simple Web Framework (SWF), including a standalone port of the IPU/Ajax capabilities to Struts. Now you can IPU enable Struts for a richer user experience. (The port will also work with other similar Web application frameworks, though not JSF.)

[ANNOUNCEMENT] SWF 0.5 Beta Released

2005-03-07 Thread William Connor
We are pleased to announce the first public Beta of the Simple Web Framework (SWF), available from http://swf.dev.java.net/. The SWF shares the same Jakarta foundation as Struts while adding an event model, a number of novel features (In place Page Updating, ...), and refined treatment of areas