Re: [Springframework-developer] Current release plan

[Tarjei S. <lo...@on...>]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:41:04PM +0200, Alef Arendsen (JTeam) wrote:
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> As far as additions to the MVC are concerned, I don't think much is
> needed to be able to build a decent webapp. Anybody interested in
> getting the TilesView(Resolver) in before the 1.0 release (might be a
> nice feature to show the pluggability and stuff)??

I'm very interested in getting at least TilesView in before 1.0. I'm
using Tiles myself for most of my own personal projects and I find it
highly useful. I've spent some time lately looking at the TilesView and
TilesViewResolver you posted a couple of weeks ago. TilesView seemed to
work quite ok, definitely something that could be included in Spring
imho :)

When it comes to the TilesViewResolver I'm not quite so sure, it doesn't
seem quite right in my opinion. I would much rather see an aproach like
the one we currently have for Velocity. The TilesViewResolver you posted
didn't really do anything specifically related to resolving the view, 
it more or less just took care of initializing the DefinitionsFactory for 
Tiles. 

I'd like to propose that TilesViewResolver should be renamed to
something like TilesConfigurer. TilesConfigurer would just be a simple
javabean that takes care of initializing Tiles, just like
VelocityConfigurer currently does for Velocity. TilesView would be
pretty much the same as before, maybe we could add a definitionName
property that gives the user a possibility to not use the view name as
the definition name all of the time. We could default to using the
viewname as the definitionname to minimize the need for aditional 
configration for each TilesView but allow the developers out there to 
override it if needed.

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