Hi Christopher,
I don't know how anyone feels about it as a sub-project, I'm not sure I
see it as something that rises to the level of a sub-project... while
certainly useful and something many would like to use I think, it
doesn't quite feel like it's substantial enough to be a whole
sub-project. Just my opinion :)
But, if your thinking of building it on top of AjaxTags (the generic
version from JWP I hope!), I might suggest submitting it for inclusion
in JWP... I *think* you could do it as simply an AjaxTags Response
Handler, albeit maybe a more complex one than the others.
Since the Struts-only version of AjaxTags isn't being supported any
more, it would have to be not specific to Struts to fit in with the rest
of AjaxTags in JWP, and I don't know if that fits in with what you
have/intended to do.
If you haven't looked at JWP yet, here's the link:
http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net
Have a look at the Javadocs, the taglib package. The package
documentation for AjaxTags should give you a good idea of how it works
(it's actually pretty close to the Struts-specific version, wouldn't be
a hassle to convert to it I think).
Frank
Christopher Marsh-Bourdon wrote:
I would be interested in getting a feel for those developers who would
be interested in a dynamic table renderer that allows for automatic
sorting across a single or multiple columns and the ability to
redisplay only the table using Frank Zametti's AjaxTags (it can do it
as a whole page to, but that is just wasteful!). I've been evolving
one over several years and it would be but a days work to get it
generic enough to make available to others.
I'm sure there are other solutions out there; there definitely is one
by Bill Siggelkow in his 'Jakarta Struts Cookbook'. This solution is a
more encompassing, removing the need to have to hard code the ordering
in your action, it can be specified via XML or just left to the
renderer to work it out based on the underlying Class of the bean
(assuming there is only one) within the collection.
Anyways, can I just ask any of those who are interested to give me a
yay (or nay) so I get a gist as to whether I am wasting my time or not?
Cheers
Christopher Marsh-Bourdon
www.marsh-bourdon.com
AIM: marshbourdon
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Frank W. Zammetti
Founder and Chief Software Architect
Omnytex Technologies
http://www.omnytex.com
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