What you are describing is a kind of cross-cutting concern. Those are often handled better at Tapestry's service layer than inside components and pages, often by contributing a ComponentRequestFilter into the ComponentRequestHandler service's configuration.
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Robert Hailey <rob...@cmediacorp.com> wrote: > > On May 19, 2010, at 9:30 AM, oskar_a wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm developing an application with T5 (Tomcat, Hibernate+MySQl). And I'm >> looking for a solution for the initial page. The user shold see the >> initial >> page at the first start of the application. On this page he have to create >> an admin (of the web appication) and set default values. So this is a >> essential step for the running of the application but I need this only >> single time (after the application start), so it's not really make sense >> to >> implement this on my index page (and connect every time to the database >> and >> look if there is an admin defined). > > You are quite right. Most likely you will have the "start" page's activation > logic detect a new install (e.g. no users defined?) and redirect to another > page which has the initial setup procedure. By laying out (approximately) > one high-level function per page, Tapestry lets you better organize your > app. > > As an aside, a slightly better solution might be to have a "default" user > which is in the initial database. Then a freshly setup app is less > vulnerable to a random person/bot finding it before it can be properly > setup. > > -- > Robert Hailey > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator of Apache Tapestry The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast! (971) 678-5210 http://howardlewisship.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
