On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Hans-Joachim Matheus wrote:
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:36:25 +0200
> From: Hans-Joachim Matheus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Struts Tags for Visual HTML Components / Java Server Faces
> [was: ] Struts menu
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to hear a little bit of the
> ideas of the list members about other
> "visual components" that you know from
> e.g. Swing GUIs that you also would like
> to see in a HTML GUI, e.g. a Tree component.
>
That is exactly the space that JavaServer Faces will live in, along with
the associated infrastructure to make it work.
> What will be the relationship of such
> menu, tree, and other components to Java Server
> Faces.
My plan is to make it easy to use Faces components to build the UI of
Struts based applications, without having to mess with struts-config.xml,
your actions, or any of that stuff. We'll (obviously) continue to support
the existing HTML tag library, but I suspect most people will tend to
choose the Faces tags for new apps, once they become available.
>
> Is it worth putting much effort in such components,
> e.g. tag libraries,
If you need them right now, it's absolutely worth the effort.
Doing a simple "visual component" like a date chooser widget (three select
boxes for month/day/year) is pretty easy -- a bean class to represent the
properties and a new tag to render it. Doing something like a tree
control is *much* more complex. I helped do a really kludgy one inside
the Struts-based Tomcat 4 administration application (download recent
nightly build sources and look in the "webapps/admin" directory if you're
curious), but would be very interested in ideas on how to do that more
elegantly.
> or will some kind of Java Server Faces standarts
> kind of blow away the allready done work.
> (@see Log4J)
>
That must be why the #1 question I received at JavaOne was "what's the
deal with JavaServer Faces and Struts?" :-)
> How do you think will the now better and more
> trustworthy Javascript-DOM-capabilities of the
> new browsers influence such components.
>
That only helps if your users have the new browsers :-)
> Would like to hear your 0.02 Euro-Cents ;-)
>
Absolutely!
> Hans-Joachim Matheus
>
Craig
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