Re: [Springframework-rcp-dev] Refactoring the docking code

[Rogan D. <ro...@da...>]

Jan Hoskens wrote:
> Sounds good, though I haven't yet used a docking framework.
> 
> I guess a user can choose the needed framework and the dependencies are
> listed optional (user has to choose one in its own dependencies)?
> 
> Thanks for looking at this. I hope I can find some time to finish some
> of my rcp changes that I had to delay (yet again).
> 
> Regards,
> Jan

Yes, that would be the idea.

Rogan

> 
> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 18:31 +0200, Rogan Dawes wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I am looking at refactoring the docking code to include some generic 
>> interfaces and supporting classes, along with specialised classes for 
>> the various docking frameworks.
>>
>> I have come up with the following, from examining the JIDE docking and 
>> VLDocking support libs. Comments are welcome.
>>
>> Create a package org.springframework.richclient.application.docking, 
>> under which common docking support interfaces and classes reside:
>>
>> Each framework will have a custom implementation of DockingApplicationPage.
>>
>> interface DockingApplicationPage extends ApplicationPage {
>>
>>      public PerspectiveManager getPerspectiveManager();
>>
>>      public void setPerspectiveManager(PerspectiveManager 
>> perspectiveManager);
>>
>> }
>>
>> PerspectiveManager will be responsible for organising the available 
>> Perspectives.
>>
>> public interface PerspectiveManager {
>>
>>      void setPerspectives(Perspective[] perspectives);
>>
>>      void setDefaultPerspective(Perspective perspective);
>>
>>      Perspective getDefaultPerspective();
>>
>>      Perspective getCurrentPerspective();
>>
>>      void setCurrentPerspective(Perspective perspective);
>>
>> }
>>
>> Perspective will be responsible for applying and saving itself on a 
>> particular DockingApplicationPage:
>>
>> public interface Perspective extends BeanNameAware {
>>
>>      String getId();
>>
>>      void activate(DockingApplicationPage dockingPage);
>>
>>      boolean saveLayout(DockingApplicationPage dockingPage);
>>
>> }
>>
>> Each framework will have a custom implementation of Perspective. 
>> Obviously, the custom versions will only be able to operate with the 
>> corresponding version of DockingApplicationPage.
>>
>> I have also created a common implementation of DockingViewDescriptor, 
>> that adds "hideable", "closeable", "maximizeable", "floatable" 
>> attributes. These should be common to all docking frameworks.
>>
>> Then implementations for specific frameworks would fall under the 
>> .docking package.
>>
>> e.g. org.springframework.richclient.application.docking.vldocking
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Rogan
>>
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