>From Jesse Kuhnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think it sounds like a very cool component, but there are a few things > that worry me about it; > > -) The css styling is a nice touch, but probably isn't going to be enough to > suit all needs. It would be better if this were more like the table > component - which allows you to have a suitable default for many instances - > but is also really a composite of other components underneath so that people > can override the default styling.
Agreed. People might not even like to have this rendered as a table. > > -) The fact that it contains a form is probably a big no no. I would specify > that you "require" people to wrap it with a form, but actually containing > the form seems very inflexible. (maybe this is along the same lines as the > point above ?) On the other hand, this component is a Form, a BeanForm, so I don't see this as a problem. What I expect people to ask however is for ways to override the components that edit each property - perhaps an Autocompleter or a TextArea instead of a TextField, e.t.c. ... > > It would still be nice to see things like tapernate eventually plug into > hibernate's meta data to provide auto-validation setup for some of these > things as well. > > Overall it sounds like the start of something good, but could also quickly > become very unruly if not treated very delicately. (From the component > writers perspective.) It just suffers from a popularity problem perhaps. > It's something that's likely to sound immediately appealing to a lot of > people, so if it's not entirely well thought out and able to be inuitively > used by the majority of people it's going to be an eyesore and source of > frustration. > > On 4/30/06, D&J Gredler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'd appreciate it if some of you guys read over this page and offered up > > some constructive criticism. The component in question allows you to edit > > pojo's by writing one line of code and is fairly simple. I'm also > > interested > > in getting something like this into the Contrib package. Thoughts? > > > > Regards, > > > > Daniel Gredler > > > > > > On 5/1/06, Apache Wiki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Dear Wiki user, > > > > > > You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Jakarta-tapestry > > > Wiki" for change notification. > > > > > > The following page has been changed by DanielGredler: > > > http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-tapestry/BeanForm > > > > > > New page: > > > == BeanForm == > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > -- > Jesse Kuhnert > Tacos/Tapestry, team member/developer > > Open source based consulting work centered around > dojo/tapestry/tacos/hivemind. > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
