[jsr-314-open] Groovy support

[Kito Mann]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Kito Mann <kito.mann at virtua.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Kito Mann <kito.mann at virtua.com> wrote:
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>>> That's what I was afraid of :-). What about automatically reloading
>>> configuration -- did I miss that in the spec?
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>> Anyone have an answer for this one?
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> I would hope that in the development stage that this is going to be
> available in implementations. I'm trying to think why it needs to be defined
> in the spec. Does it need to be?
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Not necessarily. It's just frustrating that none of the deployment features
can be adequately defined in the spec (i.e. Groovy, and reloading
artifacts). The JSR says:

Eliminate the "deployment step". All the artifacts that comprise a JSF
application can be modified while the application is running. This will
bring the responsiveness people have been used to with iterative JSP
development to the JSF developer. One design idea for this is to allow JSF
artifacts to be authored in Script.

As far as I can tell, the only parts of this we've actually covered are (1)
reloading of VDL pages, and (2) allowing components to be authored in
Script. So, an implementation can only support (1) and (2), and consequently
still require restarts for changes to faces-config.xml or other artifacts
(such as managed beans). That's not much better than JSF 1.2.

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