My mantra is "open source is selfish" - so plan yes, but somebody needs to "to scratch that itch" himself before anything happens. For several months, I've been just a happy user of Trails myself and BeanForm has some answers for a component approach, so I guess the need for changes hasn't become strong enough yet.
Kalle On 1/15/07, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That was my idea and I haven't really seen any development going on with Trails. I haven't spoken to Chris Nelson in a while (we live in the same city), so he may be really busy with work or something. On 1/15/07, D&J Gredler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there still plans to modularize Trails a bit more so that developers who > don't have a "Trails application" can still use some of the components it > provides? I remember reading somewhere that this sort of component library > approach was being considered, but never saw it come to fruition. > > On 1/14/07, Kalle Korhonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > And hopefully nobody's re-inventing the wheel here because Trails has a > > pretty extensive support even for the not-so-simple cases. I know Howard > > that you and Chris Nelson have talked a bit, so I hope you take a look at > > the existing Trails code and steal/borrow from it or ask for changes > > before > > you go and write the same for Tap5. I'm also (im)patiently waiting for > > Tapestry 4.1 release to upgrade Trails to use it and I'd be more than > > happy > > to assist in changes to make it easier to support Tap5. > > > > Kalle > > > > On 1/14/07, Howard Lewis Ship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > BeanForm exists for Tapestry 4, and Tapestry 5 will have some kind of > > > similar support. I've been laying the groundwork for quite a while. > > > > > > On 1/14/07, Jesse Kuhnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Do you mean like http://beanform.sourceforge.net/ ? > > > > > > > > On 1/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What about adding "native" Tapestry support for editing (complex) > > > > > objects? > > > > > > > > > > For objects thats don't depend on other objects it would be easy ( > > e.g. > > > > > simply generating text fields). > > > > > > > > > > For objects that depend on other objects, it could maybe be solved > > > using Annotations? > > > > > > > > > > E.g. One object is Car and one is Engine. If you want to edit a car, > > a > > > dropdown box with Engines would need to be displayed. As Tapestry needs > > to > > > know which field is the one to display, this could either be done by > > using > > > the getName() method, getDisplayName() method or by using Annotations > > e.h. > > > @DisplayEditField. > > > > > > > > > > This would massively speed up Tapestry projects, you would then only > > > need a single line in your page files and the rest is done by > > Tapestry.... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Jesse Kuhnert > > > > Tapestry/Dojo team member/developer > > > > > > > > Open source based consulting work centered around > > > > dojo/tapestry/tacos/hivemind. http://blog.opencomponentry.com > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Howard M. Lewis Ship > > > TWD Consulting, Inc. > > > Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant > > > Creator and PMC Chair, Apache Tapestry > > > Creator, Apache HiveMind > > > > > > Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support > > > and project work. http://howardlewisship.com > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
