Sean Schofield wrote:
FYI there is some really cool stuff going on with dialogs in Struts
Shale right now. Its all built on top of JSF and there are some
"nightly" examples you can download from Craig's website.
Of course you can accomplish this without Shale (see Martin's
suggestions) but Shale provides a nice "standard" way of solving the
"dialog problem."
Well I checked shale yesterday, it looks really nice, but I have one
gripe with it, Callahan introduces yet another xml syntax for the page
flow, which really is totally redundant because the pageflow already is
covered in the faces-config description.
The better approach would be to use some kind of dialog marker tag,
which marks the dialog boundaries, and let JSF keep the page flow.
JSF has way too many artefacts scattered around the filesystem already
(a huge design mistake, it inherited from Struts), we dont neet yet
another artefact, and even one, which ist totally redundant.
