Re: [seam-dev] laying the tracks for Seam 3

On 21 Apr 2009, at 22:34, Jay Balunas wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Pete Muir <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > On 21 Apr 2009, at 22:17, Jay Balunas wrote: > > faces (which would have page actions, faces messages, and perhaps engulf >>>>> the current ui too) >>>>> >>>> > Sounds good. We should impl page actions on top of JSF2 events I think. >>>> FacesMessages aren't needed as they are now stored in the flashscope by >>>> default. >>>> >>> > Pete - We had talked about having the ui component being separate from >>> seam core and not depend on it. This would allow application to who are not >>> using seam to take advantage of the ui component. This came up a while back >>> in a discussion about the RichFaces validation components and moving them to >>> seam-ui. >>> >> >> Would this current approach satisfy that? >>> >> > Yes. As I keep saying "there is no Seam core" in Seam 3 - all modules >> will *just* depend on any JSR-299 impl :-) But you are actually asking "Can >> the faces module degrade gracefully such that what can be used in a plain >> JSF2 environment - no 299 - works" I think? >> > > I misspoke regarding seam-core :-( > > I really mean depending on any other seam classes in other modules ( > including 299). If we are going to migrate some RichFaces components to > seam-ui. I just want to make sure we don't end up requiring users to > include X # of seam modules, and/or 299. > > iirc - I think we were discussing some of the bean validation code. We > should discuss other components as well. > Ok, well we can add extra rules to this module: * no non-optional dependencies on other jars (must be self contained) * bean validation must have no deps outside BV api I think it would be sensible to add a short contract.txt to each module to include these requirements. Shane, could you add these?

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