[crossbar-user] Crossbar-Stylish available for download

[Daniel K. <ke...@fo...>]

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