[forge-dev] Generating compound and complex views

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 cellphone 505-507-4906