[forge-dev] Several architectural styles in Forge (was Wondering about coding convention)

[Vineet Reynolds Pereira]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Antonio Goncalves" <antonio.mailing at gmail.com>
> To: "forge-dev List" <forge-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 2:09:41 PM
> Subject: [forge-dev] Several architectural styles in Forge (was Wondering about coding convention)
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> 2013/10/21 Vineet Reynolds Pereira < vpereira at redhat.com >
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> IMHO we should not be putting persistence concerns in either the JSF beans or
> the REST resources.
> They should go into a service or a repository or whatever data access pattern
> is suitable for the context.
> This is where we lack any standardization at the moment, and it would be
> better to not limit this exercise to improving the conventions alone, but
> also the architecture.
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> Vineet, this is the topic I'm writing about at the moment. To be honest, I
> quite like to have persistent concerns in JSF beans and REST for certain
> projects... but not all, and that's where I thing Forge should give some
> choices. What I'm writing is about having 3 different architectural styles
> that could be resume like this (using CLI) :
> 
> Current (generates JSF/REST from entities) :
> jsf-scaffold-from-entity
> rest-scaffold-from-entity
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> EJB Centric (add a service layer to deal with persistence) :
> ejb-scaffold-from-entity
> jsf-scaffold-from-ejb
> rest-scaffold-from-ejb
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> REST centric (the JSF backing beans use the REST endpoint, using JAX-RS 2.0
> Client API) :
> rest-scaffold-from-entity
> jsf-scaffold-from-rest
> 

Very interesting. I was about to suggest linking any work in this space with FORGE-944.
Overall, I get the impression that we should structure commands based on 
developer workflows given common architectural styles.

I'll await your post.

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> I will let you know when the post is written, it will be clearer
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