Will:
Joachim Peer has an interesting project on the go called DbForm
(www.dbform.org) that is 'based' on Stuts. You basically give it an XML file
with table/field and some information regarding the field (size, data type,
etc) and it will generate the JSP forms for you. It has the searching and
sorting build into the generated application. I have only given this a
cursory look as the main emphasis for this for this project was to use RDBMS
Tables directly. My current project is using EJB's exclusively. There are
suppose to be hooks to make DbForm use EJB's, but I have not looked closely
enough at it. The other item is the project is based on Struts, but it does
not use Struts directly. Integration with Struts is in Mr. Peer's 'To Do'
List.
I have had the same idea, that the generation of the GUI i.e. JSP could be
automated (done when something in the XML metadata had changed), but I have
not come across anything. So I too am looking at generating the GUI
'auto-magically' for a current project that I am working on.
Regards,
Kurt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will Spies/Towers Perrin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 6:01 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Building struts UIs
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> I have a generic question. We use struts. Struts *really*
> doesn't help much
> with rapidly building UIs. I'm sure everyone here realizes
> this. I do not
> want to abandon struts, I've have had great experience with
> it but I also
> would like a way to build a mechanism to rapidly automatic
> the building of
> HTML forms. A brute force way would be to build my own
> meta-XML data and
> combine that with XSLT to generate HTML pages dynamically.
> But, before I go
> off an build anything I wanted to ask around first to see if
> anyone was
> doing the same thing, new of any open source tools, 3rd party
> tools, etc...
>
> Any info is appreciated and thanks in advance for any help,
>
> Will
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