On 01/02/2007, at 12:11 PM, Carl Mosca wrote:
Your app makes me wonder how cayenne handles views.
Our application uses the essence of a MVC framework, however we have created our own basic GUI elements subclassing JTextArea, JButton, etc, etc. These components have additional property keys which we set (using the Netbeans Matisse Swing editor) to tie them back to Cayenne field property keys. Of course events and controllers hold all this glue together. So, because each GUI component 'knows' what Cayenne field it maps to, lots of interesting functionality is possible, including validation display and formatting.
So we could very easily map access control onto these fields without much drama, but I just can't see how that translates to a usable GUI with various fields missing or greyed out depending on access rights to that component. Better for us to look at security from a GUI perspective (tabs, panels, etc) and be diligent about testing how that access is enabled across the application. This means that it effectively has nothing to do with Cayenne.
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