Re: [Faces 1.2] - Prepared layout for component autogeneration in the myfaces 1.2 branch

[Dennis Byrne <de...@dbyrne.net>]

Good job Bruno.  Looks like a lot of work.

Dennis Byrne

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruno Aranda [mailto:brunoaranda@gmail.com]
>Sent: Sunday, November 5, 2006 01:52 PM
>To: 'MyFaces Development'
>Subject: [Faces 1.2] - Prepared layout for component autogeneration in the myfaces 1.2 branch
>
>Hi,
>
>I have just committed the changes needed in the myfaces branch to start
>writing the XMLs to autogenerate the components with the awesome
>maven-faces-plugin (which comes from the trinidad project). I have done some
>basic modifications to that plugin [1] to be able to generate myfaces code
>(compliant to the spec), so it can generate all the api components, and also
>the tag classes. The plugin needs still work to generate the convertee and
>validator tag classes, but it is usuable (I think) to start writing the XMLs
>for the components). When the converter/validator tag generators are
>implemented, the plugin should be merged with the one in the trinidad
>faces-1_2 branch and then we should decide the way to put this plugin
>somewhere, available to myfaces 1.2. Now it is using a version that I have
>in my repository in people.apache.org, so it is possible to do myfaces
>1.2using this plugin.
>
>Generate the new components is as *simple* as writing the XMLs defining the
>components. The UIComponent has been already implemented and now it is
>autogenerated. A good thing about this plugin, is that you can merge an
>existing template (a class) with the code autogenerated by the plugin, so
>you can include specific component/tag behaviour. For the UICommand see the
>UICommandTemplate in core/api/src/main/java_templates.
>
>A new module has been created, called myfaces-build, which contains all the
>XMLs. The core modules (api and impl) uses the plugin now. In api, to
>generate the components, and in impl to create the faces-config.xml file,
>the tags and the taglib. To do the different tasks, different goals from the
>maven-faces-plugin are called. A good thing about this plugin too, is that
>it will allow to create a taglib file for facelets automatically.
>
>Now it is the time to write good XMLs for the components, with its
>properties well-documented, so we have a more comprehensive source code for
>faces 1.2.
>
>Eventually, this plugin could be used to generate the tomahawk library and
>the api components for myfaces 1.1. Extending the plugin is
>straight-forward.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Bruno
>
>[1]
>https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/adffaces/branches/myfaces-1_2-maven-faces-plugin
>