ContextMenus

[Robin Müller-Bady]

Dear List,

I´m student in Germany and actually working on a web chat client using
Apache MyFaces Trinidad for my bachelorthesis. I used the IBM JWL before,
but for performance reasons, we decided to switch to Trinidad.
My question is, whether it is possible to build contextMenus out of the
XMLMenuModel files. I want to show a menubar (like <tr:navigationPane
hint="bar">) an several sub-menus by clicking on one of the entries. My
sample xml-file looks like this:

    <menu xmlns="http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/menu";>
        <itemNode id="chat" action="#{persons.doChat}"
            icon="images/tools/chat.png" focusViewID="/test1.jsp"
label="Chat" />
        <itemNode id="delete" action="#{persons.doDelete}"
            icon="images/tools/delete.png" focusViewID="/test1.jsp"
            label="Delete">
            <itemNode id="delete1" action="#{persons.doDelete}"
                icon="images/tools/delete.png" focusViewID="/test1.jsp"
                label="Delete1" />
        </itemNode>
        <itemNode id="block" action="#{persons.doBlock}"
            icon="images/tools/block.png" focusViewID="/test1.jsp"
label="Block" />
        <itemNode id="info" action="#{persons.doFetchInfo}"
            icon="images/tools/info.png" focusViewID="/test1.jsp"
label="Info" />
    </menu>


The menu hierarchy should be like this:

Menu
- Chat
- Delete
- - Delete1
- Block
- Info

but there is the submenu "Delete1" missing.

Menu
- Chat
- Delete
- Block
- Info

My *.jsp integration of the menu looks like this:

    <tr:navigationPane var="foo" value="#{personMenu}" level="1"
hint="buttons">
       <f:facet name="nodeStamp">
          <tr:commandNavigationItem text="#{foo.label}" partialSubmit="true"
icon="#{foo.icon}" action="#{foo.doAction}" />
       </f:facet>
    </tr:navigationPane>


The Entry in my faces-config.xml:

    <managed-bean>
       <managed-bean-name>personMenu</managed-bean-name>

<managed-bean-class>org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.model.XMLMenuModel</managed-bean-class>
       <managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
       <managed-property>
          <property-name>source</property-name>
          <value>/main.xml</value>
       </managed-property>
    </managed-bean>


I already found some examples in the www, but none of these worked properly.
Another problem is, that this web chat client runs on Websphere Application
Server 6.1, so I need to use the v1.0.10 of Trinidad for JSF 1.1.
Thank you in advance for your help !

Kind regards,

Robin Mueller-Bady