Yeah, this would be a good move. It's bad enough that A4J + Trinidad PPR doesn't necessarily work together, but Tomahawk and Trinidad PPR not working together? :)
-- Adam On 8/3/07, Grant Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this would be a great idea. From what I've seen, the new trinidad > ajax code would be the best place to start. > > > On 8/3/07, Andrew Robinson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Related to the email I just sent asking about A4J and Trinidad, I am > > wondering if there is an opening for a new MyFaces project. MyFaces > > has no standard AJAX support. Sandbox fairly recently got some ppr > > functionality and Trinidad has its own. It would be really nice to see > > one common library for AJAX for myfaces. > > > > The idea would be to have MyFaces AJAX. Then Trinidad, Tobago, > > Tomahawk (and sandbox), and any new component libraries could leverage > > this AJAX library. If done in a very abstracted way (interfaces, > > factories, etc.), this library could even be more like the commons > > logging project, meaning that it could use another technology under > > the hood just like commons logging supports log4j as well as java > > logging. > > > > The reason I'd love to see this is so that people could use a > > combination of MyFaces component libraries and have them all work > > together. There may even be room for using A4J or even ICEFaces under > > the hood if done right, so that all these libraries can be compatible. > > > > I know this is a tricky area and hard to solidify one API that we can > > agree on, but I think I would be a great step. It would be nice to be > > able, as a tomahawk committer to write controls that would be AJAX'd > > and work with Trinidad if someone wanted to use that library as well > > for example. > > > > If people think it is a good idea, we could start by moving code from > > Trinidad for example. > > > > Opinions? > > > > -Andrew > > > > > > -- > Grant Smith >
