Re: [forge-dev] How to customize generation?

I think this sounds like a great idea. It should probably be 'Forge-wide' rather than specific to the scaffolding, as I imagine other plugins might have a similar requirement. Lincoln can you define something? Regards, Richard. On 23/12/2011 11:26 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote: > In Hibernate Tools I had a notion of a template path (classpath is not appropriate for this IMO). > > http://docs.jboss.org/tools/3.3.0.M5/en/hibernatetools/html_single/index.... > > Templatepath was a list of directories and we used the the classpath as the last fallback, meaning it would pickup the tools provided ones. > > I also went the "extra step" and placed these templates in "packages" a.k.a. sub directory to allow the different > template usages to be configured via just one template path. > > i.e. we had a view, pojo, hbm and a few others to separate them properly and to avoid name collisions. > > /max > > On Dec 23, 2011, at 06:20, Richard Kennard wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> I've written up a bit of documentation for the scaffolding here: https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/FORGE/UI+Scaffolding >> >> But I have a question around the customization. Clearly, we have some nice template files like 'create.xhtml' and 'BackingBean.jv' which can be edited in >> any text editor. And we have a nice separation of the CSS/image files that can be replaced to change the look and feel. >> >> But how are we expecting people to 'get at' these files? Are they supposed to extend the existing scaffold plugin? Or open up the JAR and edit these files? >> Or can they be placed 'on the classpath' somehow such that they will be found before the ones in the scaffolding JAR? Or some other way? >> >> Regards, >> >> Richard. >> _______________________________________________ >> forge-dev mailing list >> forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev > /max > http://about.me/maxandersen > > > > > _______________________________________________ > forge-dev mailing list > forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev > > _______________________________________________ forge-dev mailing list forge-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev