Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-06 Thread Werner Punz
Michael Jouravlev wrote: > I believe, that similar behaviour (different presentation depending on > action/page state) is possible in JSF with subviews and "rendered" > attribute. At least that what David Geary advised me to do, when I was > porting my wizard engine to JSF. > Yes indeed that is e

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-06 Thread Werner Punz
Greg Reddin wrote: > I don't have any experience with the render kit, so I may have missed > the point of it. Keep in mind that my comments are based on very > limited experience with JSF so I hope if I've missed something someone > else will correct me. But, when going through some tutorials

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-05 Thread Leon Rosenberg
On 10/5/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > This is what I don't do. I prefer to have less actions, usually > stateful. I pass parameter to it or submit a form, and it selects a > proper view. But I guess you are right: I am able to google static > html pages for my live samples,

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-05 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 10/5/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/5/05, Werner Punz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But the basic mechanisms regarding the whole page flow system are very > similar > > in jsf and struts > > Please correct me if I am wrong, but in JSF I always ask for a page. > In

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-05 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 10/4/05, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a search where the user can select whether he gets the result > as a gallery (many pics, few content), data summary ( less pix, more > content) and list (no pics, only content). They are produced by > different jsp pages (using tiles f

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-05 Thread Werner Punz
Michael Jouravlev wrote: > On 10/4/05, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Btw, struts is perfectly crawlable, since you have a different url for >>each page. This will not let you index a concrete page, but the whole >>site will be at list indexed. In opposite, a JSF site will return >>

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-05 Thread Werner Punz
Greg Reddin wrote: > In my limited experience with JSF it does not seem to contain > templating capabilities. So in Struts classic I would use Tiles for > creating site templates as well as reusable views (or component-based > views). But with JSF Tiles still proves useful for templating and

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread gramani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/04/2005 06:19:29 PM: > > Does "some work" include asking for volunteers? :-) absolutely... and I hope you included it in your status report..:) That is about as far as > I've gone related to Shale-Mailreader. > > However, one possible starting point would be the

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 10/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Which makes me ask: Craig and Frank *seemed* to indicate that some work > had been done with the Shale mail reader. If so, is it possible to get any > of that half-done code so someone (ok, I) could look at it and see what > needs to be

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 10/4/05, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/4/05, Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 4, 2005, at 3:55 AM, Leon Rosenberg wrote: > > > > > > That's another interesting question, if JSF is all-component, what do > > > I need tiles for? I mean Tiles was cool to defin

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 10/4/05, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Btw, struts is perfectly crawlable, since you have a different url for > each page. This will not let you index a concrete page, but the whole > site will be at list indexed. In opposite, a JSF site will return > different content to the "same

RE: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread David G. Friedman
27;Struts Shale' http://struts.apache.org/shale) and Facelets (https://facelets.dev.java.net) were created to fill that need. Regards, David -Original Message- From: Leon Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 10:34 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subjec

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread gramani
"Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/04/2005 10:51:00 AM: > I didn't get far enough to have any actual code... I'm a JSF/Shale newbie, > but I offered to do the mailreader since it's not a complicated app and I > thought it would make a good learning experience for me, as well as

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread gramani
Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/04/2005 10:45:14 AM: > > Please don't let that stop you from sharing. In the world of open > source we all learn from each other. I'm sure the "experts" will be > happy to point out worst practices and the rest of us will be happy > to learn :-) >

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread Gary VanMatre
> ok, asking the other way around, does someone have anything that could > serve an example application for Shale and he or she is ready to > share? > The rolodex usecase example has a resemblance of what you might find in a CRUD web application. Its focus is on the Clay plugin for creating reus

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, October 4, 2005 10:36 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Which makes me ask: Craig and Frank *seemed* to indicate that some work > had been done with the Shale mail reader. If so, is it possible to get any > of that half-done code so someone (ok, I) could look at it and see what > needs to be do

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread Greg Reddin
On Oct 4, 2005, at 9:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, asking the other way around, does someone have anything that could serve an example application for Shale and he or she is ready to share? I think the problem is that even though people probably do have example apps working they m

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread Greg Reddin
On Oct 4, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Leon Rosenberg wrote: In my limited experience with JSF it does not seem to contain templating capabilities. So in Struts classic I would use Tiles for creating site templates as well as reusable views (or component-based views). But with JSF Tiles still proves use

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread gramani
Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/04/2005 10:24:58 AM: > ok, asking the other way around, does someone have anything that could > serve an example application for Shale and he or she is ready to > share? I think the problem is that even though people probably do have example apps w

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread Leon Rosenberg
On 10/4/05, Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 4, 2005, at 3:55 AM, Leon Rosenberg wrote: > > > > That's another interesting question, if JSF is all-component, what do > > I need tiles for? I mean Tiles was cool to define a common renderer > > for an abstract view-component which was t

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread Leon Rosenberg
ok, asking the other way around, does someone have anything that could serve an example application for Shale and he or she is ready to share? thanx leon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Tue, October 4, 2005 3:51 am, Craig McClanahan said: > For the record, that (shale-mailreader) is definitely on the agenda ... we > had a volunteer, but so far that hasn't produced anything more than I've > been able to do myself. Yep, I have to apologize for that... I've allowed myself to get

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread Greg Reddin
On Oct 4, 2005, at 3:55 AM, Leon Rosenberg wrote: That's another interesting question, if JSF is all-component, what do I need tiles for? I mean Tiles was cool to define a common renderer for an abstract view-component which was then implicitely defined with struts-classic. Now JSF supports comp

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread Leon Rosenberg
Thanx, Graig, but you opened more new questions as you answered :-) On 10/4/05, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > > > I would think that for most web applications, you wouldn't want a user > to > > > attempt to jump into the middle of a dynamic web application without a > > > con

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-04 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 10/3/05, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanx David, Gary. > > On 10/4/05, Gary VanMatre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The use-case application's purpose is to demo the requirements of a > specific > > feature of Shale. We have not built an example using all the Shale > > featu

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-03 Thread Leon Rosenberg
Thanx David, Gary. On 10/4/05, Gary VanMatre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The use-case application's purpose is to demo the requirements of a specific > feature of Shale. We have not built an example using all the Shale > features. > > Shale is a framework built on top of JSF. It provides value

Re: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-03 Thread Gary VanMatre
> > after long time of scepticism I decided to try out Shale. I downloaded > the shale nightly and installed it on my tomcat 5.0.28. Somehow it was > not very satisfying. The struts-shale-usecases runs (or I suppose it > to run) with a lot of warnings, but dont give the example, an > applicati

RE: [Shale]Newbie question

2005-10-03 Thread David G. Friedman
Leon, The point you made about Shale performing form submissions is more of a JSF (JavaServer Faces) issue to help it retain state information to properly generate, validate, and so forth the JSF pages. I don't believe Shale tries to make JSF navigation any different. I have seen some discussion