I recently integrated the JQuery-based DataTables[1] library into one of my Tapestry applications. I had previously used the HTML approach (rendering all of the HTML for the table via the TML and then let the DataTable augment the HTML table), but went with the AJAX option to handle large result sets. I was unsure how to handle the AJAX calls with Tapestry, but after a little digging I figured it out and it was much simpler than I feared. I created an event/handler in my component that processed the AJAX request and returned JSON to the DataTable. It ended up being a component with ~100 lines of code. I was pretty happy with the flexibility of both Tapestry and the DataTable. I'm not convinced an action-based framework is any easier.
mrg [1] http://www.datatables.net/ On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Piero Sartini <li...@pierosartini.de> wrote: > Yeah - you could do this, but a lot of problems will arise. You don't > want to do this, I've tried it. > In the end you give up the advantages of components and gain nothing. > And its still more complex to use than in an action based framework, > especially if it comes to AJAX. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
