Re: [Geoserver-devel] New UI and new config wiki pages up

[Richard d. <dg...@no...>]

Le Vendredi 29 D=E9cembre 2006 16:21, Andrea Aime a =E9crit :
> Richard didier ha scritto:
> > Le Lundi 25 D=E9cembre 2006 18:44, Justin Deoliveira a =E9crit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just a question after reading theses specs : does someone known about
> > ZeroCode (http://www.zkoss.org)? There are a Spring connector, and a
> > upgrading path from Struts/JSP to ZK.
> >
> > I am reading the documentation and it seems that R1-R9 are covered.
> > Not sure (neither unsure) about W1, but W2, W3 and W4 seem to be cove=
red
> > too.
> >
> > As I don't know wicket yet, I'm not able to compare them.
>
> First of all, thank you for suggesting it.
> I've taken a look, and it's somehow similar to wicket on the server
> side, and to GWT on the client side... good match indeed, seems
> well thought out.

I've made some tests (porting Struts/Tiles/JSP), it is quite impressive i=
n=20
terms of final appearence (thanks to the XUL widgets)

> I don't like much the fact that ZUML is used instead of pure XHTML
> as in the case of Wicket, but what really rings as wrong is the
> license model: GPL + commercial.

I missed that one !-(

> If our road is to make Geoserver core LGPL so that people can build
> commercial extensions to Geoserver, I would stay away from a framework
> that makes you pay big bucks when it comes to write the UI for your
> commercial module.

You're right. Forget about ZK.

>
> Cheers
> Andrea

All the best,

didier