Re: [Webwork-user] Web components?

[Hristo S. <hr_...@ya...>]

Rickard-,
Remeber we talked about this some while ago.
Basically, we talked about using Swing components
directly, because they are JavaBeans anyways. 
However, since they are missing the webwork Action
interface, we might want to use the JDK 1.3 proxy
classes to "adapt" the existing Swing components to
the
webwork interfaces. A good place to do that is the 
dispatcher servlet. When an action is instantiated,
(the getAction() method) we check if it implements
the Action interface. If not, create a proxy class.
Most of the "execute()" logic should come from
view.properties. 
If we manage to do that, the swing components can be
reused in a GUI J2EE applications later. 

Here are some possible directions for future
development of webwork:
1) Design an equivalent of the Dispatcher.java for
Swing/GUI applications. Have you seen these 4
articles:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-1999/jw-07-toolbox.html

As far as I can remeber, the author presents a
"visual-proxy" architecture which is pretty close to
what we are building, only in Swing ... It's worth
reading!

2)Design an comprehensive EJB backend. What happened
to EBS?


Regards,
Hristo


--- Rickard Öberg <ri...@jb...> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Just thinking about our generic controls. I am in
> the process of
> updating EBS to use WebWork 0.7, and saw that I
> wanted a tab pane
> component. But then I thought: hey, this can be
> generalized, just like
> Swings TabPane. Feed it a list of {name, url}'s and
> it should be
> possible to render a tab pane. I think this is
> possible to do. This
> general approach should be VERY powerful, if it
> works as I hope.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?
> 
> regards,
>   Rickard
> 
> -- 
> Rickard Öberg
> 
> Email: ri...@jb...
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