[crossbar-user] Crossbar-Stylish available for download
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From: Daniel K. <ke...@fo...> - 2003-06-21 05:15:17
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NEWER NEWS (Today) The second Crossbar example application is now fully documented and available for download at http://www.crossbar.info/. Crossbar-Stylish is a Java Server Faces example application that uses Cascading Style Sheets. The application implements a stylesheet switcher that allows you to choose from several styles and immediately see the changed appearance of the pages. The Crossbar-Stylish application is designed to use stylesheets that have been written for the Movable Type web logging application. There is a large community of designers who are actively creating alternative stylesheets for Movable Type. Any of these open source, freeware, shareware, or commercial stylesheets will work with the Crossbar-Stylish application. The Crossbar-Stylish application demonstrates a page structure that easily can be recast as a single-column, two-column, or three-column layout; with banner, sidebar, content area, and footer. In many cases, major structural changes (such as moving a list of links from page right to page left) can be accomplished with minor changes to include files and CSS stylesheet files. The application also includes a default stylesheet that restyles web forms for a more contemporary look. OLDER NEWS (Last week) Crossbar is a collection of example applications written for Java Server Faces (JSF) and Java Server Pages (JSP). The first release, Crossbar-Hello, is a basic JSF "Hello World" example that shows how to use Java logging and adds a project layout that accommodates builds using either Ant or Maven. It also shows how to obtain application context attributes for use in any class using the JSF ExternalContext class. Until six months ago, the project was a web reporting framework that layered on top of Struts. I've abandoned that approach in favor of using JSF to make small simple example applications that can be easily deconstructed and adapted for a variety of uses. Eventually, the web reporting functionality will return (hopefully in a simpler, friendlier way!). Please let me know if you have praise or complaints. -- Daniel ke...@fo... About the Crossbar Project: http://www.crossbar.info |