Hi Rich, the screens of the ajax components from blueprints look interesting. Using dojo on client sounds resonable. The state of dojo integration is *early*, but on going.
Using Shale-Remoting on the server side is interesting. It allows you to invoke an "action" method on a backing bean (aka view controller). The given usecase example contains an url like /dynamic/remoting$business/cityAndStateForZip.faces?zip=VALUE Here, remoting$business is a backing bean and cityAndStateForZip is a method which looks up the "zip" http parameter (see [1] for the bean code) What I don't like on that bean is, that it creates via javax.faces.context.ResponseWriter the markup (here a xml list). Just my $0.02 -Matthias [1] http://tinyurl.com/jar73 On 4/20/06, Richard Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I hope you don't mind the cross post, but I just wanted to point this > out to everyone. > > https://blueprints.dev.java.net/ajaxcomponents.html > > The AJAX components use Dojo for the client-side and build on > Shale-remoting for the server-side. I had a similar idea and was even > working on creating some components in my spare time, but hadn't gotten > this far. I know there are also some components in MyFaces sandbox, but > I don't think those are as far along as these either. > > Very cool and exciting stuff. I especially like the AJAX fileupload and > the validator. The progress bar is cool too, but I can't see any way to > use it in cases where the progress is indeterminate like processing a > credit card or some other task that you don't know how long it's going > to take. > > Rich > -- Matthias Wessendorf Aechterhoek 18 48282 Emsdetten http://jroller.com/page/mwessendorf mwessendorf-at-gmail-dot-com
