Facelets???

[manuelgentile]

Is it possible to integrate into the Alfresco Web Client a set of pages made with Facelets!?!?!?
It's a special content editor??

Thanks

[manuelgentile]

I have an xml editor written using facelets. Is it possible to add this editor into alfresco web client!?!?

[gavinc]

Yes it is possible. You can run JSP and Facelets based JSF apps within the same application so yes, you could have your facelets page called.

I'm not sure what you mean by

an xml editor written using facelets

. Facelets is just a view layer for JSF, is the XML editor a JSF component or is it JavaScript/DHTML that has been embedded into the facelets page?

Either way I don't think you are tied to facelets, it would be fairly simple to take the XML editor and place it on a JSP page.

[manuelgentile]

Thanks Gavin,
I'm trying to explain better.
I made a facelets application (some xhtml pages and other pieces of xhtml as custom tag) to manage a set og jaxb 2.0 generated bean.
I want to manage that kind of xml data file into Alfresco (store, search edit and so on…)
I ask you if i's possible to use facelets…and I'm very happy that it is  possible.

Another question, I think facelets is a very useful view technology, you think that is possible to move Alfresco Web Client on Facelets?

[gavinc]

It's funny you should ask as I spent Friday investigating that possiblity.

In theory, yes we could move to it, it all depends how much time we get in our frantic release cycles to do it

The most likely scenario is that we move parts of the application to facelets where it would be most valuable.

If we were starting another project application/project now we would more than likely base it on facelets.

[manuelgentile]

I will spend some times on this task… if I reach some goals I like to share results with the Alfresco Community! 🙂

[gavinc]

Please do!

[manuelgentile]

I start with facelets conversion of the Alfresco Web Client.
I need some help…..
I don't knwo if it is right to start a new Forge Project and start a call for the partecipation in the project?

I just have some code to share …..


🙂

[gavinc]

Yes, the forge is the perfect place for this, go ahead and create a project.

I look forward to seeing what you've done so far.

[gavinc]

Just a warning before you spend all your time converting the whole application, we have recently decided to embark on a re-design of the client for the 2.0 version (due by the end of the year) so you may want to factor that into your plans.