Using this within Struts or some framework would be pretty revolutionary,
especially as you could now develop applications redically faster than what
you could do before.
I really mean radically, to do a search/edit/delete etc.. for a object
takes minutes.
Mike
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This is question that is best asked on the users list as it has
noting to do with struts futire development.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I will be working on porting a company framework (and hopefully open
source
>it) from ASP/VB (yack!) to Java. The idea of the framework is quite
simple.
>It is a framework for buiding administration screens like update/search
>edit user but it has some interesting features :
>
>The Business objects a described in xml ie :
>
><entity>
><name>user</name>
><table>usr</table>
><attributes>
><name>firstname</name>
><label>
><EN>
><label>First Name</label>
></EN>
>.....
></attributes>
>
><attributegroups>
><attributegroup>
><name>Label</name>
><attributes>
><attribute>firstname</attribute>
><attribute>surname</attribute>
></attributes>
></attributegroup>
><attributegroup>
><name>Edit</name>
><attributes>
><attribute>firstname</attribute>
><attribute>surname</attribute>
>....
></attributes>
></attributegroup>
>etc..
></entity>
>
>
>The Business Object xml descriptor has enough information for display it
as
>well as updating it. AttributesGroups allow for list views and edit views
>of the object.
>
>Another component of the framework is the PageFlows that are made up of
>Actions that use these Business Objects to get the info for these views
>like "Edit User". Most of the time you do not need to write code at all,
we
>have also written a editor for the Business Objects and the Pages Flows.
>
>
>So at the end of the day the html of genernated by the framework from the
>xml descriptor and the persistence is also done from there. So doing
>administration screens are very quick. ie : days instead of weeks. The
some
>code can be used for web front ends as well as guis.
>
>I was wondering it there is anything else out there like this or are there
>ways on doing some intergration of this with Struta and Hibernate and
>Cocoon?
>
>Mike
>
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