do I see that right that vaadin does not have a treetable component out of the box?

Ruben

Philipp Bärfuss wrote:
I know Magnolia wants to keep the dialogs for editing going. In my experience, 
this confuses the users a bit and it would be better to be able to edit 
directly on the page instead.
True, the new page editing will be based on dialogs as most of the other things 
in AdminCentral. As a first improvement we will open the dialogs directly in 
the page and at a more natural position. Inline editing is nice but it can only 
be seen as a nice addition as many things can't be edited inline in a 
reasonable way: teasers, meta data, check boxes, ...

While the inline editing isn't our top priority, we still try to approach it 
and are about to prototype some test-cases to validate Vaadin in that regard. 
As a solution we plan to introduce meta attibutes which tells the page editor 
what is editable and what elements belong to which paragraph/content. If inline 
editing is part of 5.0 or not can't be said today but we really try to enable 
it. We are also expecting much better support for that in HTML 5.

So a change like this would bring the admin interface into the webpage or has 
at least the potential to, While this type of editing is not a design goal of 
magnolia as far as I understand, it would be good to have an architecture in 
place that could support this in the future.

Vaadin is based no GWT and GWT can be used to write Vaadin Widgets. We try to 
proof that this really works.

Philipp


Ruben

Jörg von Frantzius wrote:
Personally I was aware that this architectural choice only affects the admin 
interface, but I also wasn't sure whether everybody else was ;)

We did use GWT in the admin interface, and we made good experiences with it. 
All I wrote previously about performance was meant to refer to the admin 
interface, which is being used heavily e.g. by editors. If you work 8h per day 
on a system that gives you sluggish performance or bad usability, or when you 
know it could be faster, this can drive you nuts (at least me it would).

From our experience, the decision for a CMS system often is heavily influenced 
by the actual users of the admin interface, such as editors. And that's with 
good reason, because it's them who eventually must work with it for years every 
day.

On 10.08.2010 10:22, Nils Breunese wrote:
Mrinal Kanti wrote:

I feel that the community ecosystem was a bit underestimated in the evaluation 
where Ext/JS was considered above GWT. I would be considering the overall 
architecture which supports a wider community involvement - not just from a 
polished UI perspective but from a social participation perspective.

I feel strongly about the potential of OpenSocial platform 
(http://www.opensocial.org) and support for other applications like - My Space, 
Orkut, Google Wave etc. Since Vaadin follows an entirely different 
architectural approach, I do not know how far it can collaborate with these 
platforms/applications. Needless to say, that any product architecture which 
encourages (and has a potential for) developing a community ecosystem would be 
a first choice regardless of a rich component library or polished UI. I am not 
bashing Vaadin in general, but it seems it does not have the sufficient 
advantage to be among the core components of a CMS especially considering the 
architectural impact/alienation.
I'm not sure if everyone in this thread realizes that the choice for a UI 
framework for Magnolia 5 is (AFAIK) only a choice for the framework used to 
build the new *admin* interface. I believe this will have zero impact on your 
websites. Or am I misunderstanding the complaints?

Nils Breunese.

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