[jsr-314-open] Cleaning up the composite PDL

[Dan Allen]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jim Driscoll <Jim.Driscoll at sun.com> wrote:

> The composite PDL currently has an exmaple component, which takes up a
> rather large amount of space, and, I feel, doesn't really give a lot of
> information for someone coming to the technology for the first time.
>
> At the same time, important information like the specialness of the values
> "action", "actionListener", "validator", and
> "valueChangeListener" are buried in the name attribute of the
> composite:attribute page.
>
> I think we might be better served by removing the example (or else, using a
> much smaller and simpler example), and including information like the
> special names in that freed space.
>
> What do you guys think?  Am I off base?
>
> I've filed the following spec issue 572 to track this:
> https://javaserverfaces-spec-public.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=572


+1. Make it simpler. After all, we are trying to demonstrate just how simple
the easy component creation is, and frankly this example doesn't convince me
(though I do certainly appreciate what it is trying to show).

-Dan

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