Martin Marinschek wrote:
Hey guys & girls,
have you read about that Google Summer-of-code initiative
(http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html)?
I have several (exactly 4 students) who would love to take part in
this initiative, so all we would need to have would be 4 small
projects they could finish in 3 months work.
The good thing: they are all trained (by me ;) in JSF, have worked
with the framework, have written a small project on their own and that
all using MyFaces!
What do you say? Is there anything we would definitely want to have done?
I have already added a project:
- implementing the architecture for AJAX-based components, this one
would be important and certainly worth a shot
Other suggestions:
- Implementing PRETTY_HTML for all renderers, and getting the html to
be "more" valid than today
- Writing server-side-sort/client-side sort implementations for
dataTable and dataList
- Implementing changes for JSF1.2
What about your suggestions? Would you be interested in mentoring?
Projects can be added at:
http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2005
An in my opinion interesting thing would be some kind of scope controls.
(Have been carrying the idea for a while now but no time to look into it)
It is somewhat redundant to what Clanhan does in Shale with the dialog
system, but nevertheless, the idea is following.
You currently have only a session and a request and application scope.
The idea would be to have some kind of special tag, <x:scope
scopeName="<scopename>" value="<some storage bean>"/>
which marks a scope, as long as you run into pages which have this
scope, the bean which is stored is not garbage collected, it is kept in
ram, as soon as you run out of the scope it is dumped into the garbage
collector.
That way you could save the serialization vial x:saveState and you dont
have to session or traverse every data you have to move between forms
and formstates all the time.
Shale has something very similar, but more complex, which also
interweaves stacked scopes and page flow, but in many cases you dont
want to tackle another framework and xml syntax.
How about this for a suggestion?
