[forge-dev] Generating compound and complex views

[Robb Greathouse]

Hi all,

I have been working on something with Forge to build out projects really quickly.  I do it with cut and pastes now.  But is so simple, it should be possible to write a plugin to do this. I take the views that are automatically generated by the Forge and cut and paste them together.

What I wanted to do was a plugin that would take the views created by the forge (create.xhtml, search.xhtml, view.xhtml) and build them into another view.  Example taking a customer.xhtml and creditCard.xhtml and combining them to be a customerRegistration.xhtml.  Really easy with the forge frame work.  Just requires adding a cascade and fetch to the @ManyToOne annotation.

Really simple.

Then wanted to try something more complicated like a Booking (from TicketMonster) by combining more and creating a backing bean by injecting other backing beans into it.

While the UI will not be pretty; but IMHO it creates a solid starting point really fast, that can be easily beautified later.  Just doing it cut and paste really speeds up development.


Robb Greathouse
Partner Enablement
Middleware Business Unit
JBoss, a Division of Red Hat
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