[Springframework-developer] Component Centric Web Framework for Spring

[Cristi P. <cri...@cr...>]

Hi everybody!
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My name is Cristian Pascu and I am developing an opensource project
named "wedge" (http://wedge.sourceforge.net) which is a component
centric web framework built on Spring.=20
It is similar to Tapestry and aims to provide some features that are not
yet available in Tapestry. Namely:
	* better and easier integration with Spring.
	* simple POJO classes behind clean xhtml pages. There is no need
to extend specific framework classes. The classes are easy to test as
they are easy to instantiate and configure.
	* all page classes may be managed by Spring inversion of control
container. This way, services from the business tier will be injected in
the presentation tier.
	* a simpler component/pages specification. There should be a
single configuration file and not one for each component.
	* the configuration of the application should be very simple,
one xml file with few tags and attributes. Much of the configuration
will be on the spring side.

Most of these features are already implemented. There is still some work
to do on the validation mechanism. The upload support is also missing
but is not to hard to implement.

But what differentiate the wedge framework from tapestry framework is
that instead of using runtime reflection it follows the "code
generation" paradigm. Let me be more specific: The connection between
the template and the class behind it is made through an intermediary
generated class that binds the two. Thus, the generated code "knows"
exactly which is the structure of the template, that components to
render, what classes to use and what methods to call at the right time.
The generation is done with an ANT task each time before the application
is started.

If you have any thoughts on what I am trying to do, critics or advices,
all are welcomed!

Do you think that such a framework is needed?
Do you think that my approach is a good one?=20

Thank you very much!

Cristian


PS: There is not any release yet. You may check out the project from
sourceforge: https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wedge=20