There has been a bunch of problems with PageMaps lately and there has been some talk about totally gettting rid of them (on ##wicket).
Here is what I think: * PageMaps have been badly named from the start. * Our current cookie based support with javascript fallback turns out to be somewhat fragile. However, the way scope seems to do it (see http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=41119), using the window name, seems pretty cheap and robust to me. Maybe we can do something like that too? * PageMaps conceptually are great. Discussions about the page map usually focus around solving back button problems, but another dimension of page maps is the scope they represent: window. We currently have application/ session/ component scopes, and that's usually enough. However, depending on what you do with the session, you might run into trouble when users utilize multiple windows. For instance, say you build an application where you store a certain operation context in the session (e.g. a departement that a user selects after logging on). Storing that in the session will prevent the use of another operation context in another window on the same session. Currently such multi window support would be hard to achieve. Wouldn't it be cool/ useful to have the concept of Windows in our Session (and then ditching PageMaps)? E.g.. Session could have factory method newWindow(String name) and accessor getWindow(String name), and Window would be a fairly shallow object that can be used to store stuff in the same fashion of Session. If we can fix our multi window support to be based on unique window names instead of the cookie trick we're using, we can align that with names of the server side window representation. I think it would be pretty powerful. What do you think? Eelco Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Wicket-develop mailing list Wicket-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-develop
