Daniel: "Daniel Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/10/2005 05:39:49 AM: > My reasoning behind all this stuff, is i HATE all these xml config files. > Or more accurately, I like xml config files, but I hate moving between X > different xml files. It might suit IDEs, but it aint right for humans! > You've got a jsp page with <html:text> - why cant i put validation, type > (for dynamic bean handling), etc there, rather than looking at various > different xml files.
XDcolet hasn't been integrated with JSF yet ( http://www.evolutionnext.com/blog/2004/11/13/1100372027000.html) but once it is, who knows, maybe we'll probably never touch a config file again..:) > > > > > > Then you eliminate actionforms as all the validation info is in > > the form, > > > and can be automcatically done for you, and then use can use > > dynamic proxies > > > to provide properly typed javabeans as output from a form, and use the > > > models DTOs to put data into forms! > > > > You just described the most common design pattern for using JSF :-). > > One of these days i will find some time to look at jsf/shale properly. Been > saying that for quite a while, just never got round to it! > > Daniel. Geeta