[keycloak-dev] Viliam Re: What is everybody working on?

[Stian Thorgersen]

My fault! I asked Villiam to do it.

Basically I started work on the account management pages, and Villiam needed something to work on so I asked if he wanted to continue on it. What we saw was that since all processing of forms are done by REST endpoints, JSF was really only used as a (very complex) template engine. 

The benefits of FreeMarker over JSF are:

* More lightweight - we don't even need to do a servlet forward as REST resources can directly return the page themselves
* Templates are a lot friendlier to write - developers should be able to define their own templates for login, registration, etc. and FreeMarker has a lot simpler syntax than JSF (Facelets), especially for developers without previous JSF experience
* Same template syntax/engine can be used for emails

I agree this should have been raised on the ML first and I apologize for not having done so.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Thursday, 19 September, 2013 1:45:05 PM
> Subject: [keycloak-dev] Viliam Re:  What is everybody working on?
> 
> Why would we benefit moving to FreeMarker?  I support your decision,
> just curious and want to know why.  Also, what else could you work on?
> 
> BTW, making decisions like a JSF->FreeMarker switch needs to be done
> together on this list.  I (and others?) didn't even know you were doing
> this. This is important to avoid things like messy merge conflicts.
> 
> On 9/19/2013 5:03 AM, Viliam Rockai wrote:
> > I'm working on KEYCLOAK-60 Replace JSF in forms with a template engine.
> > It's nearly done, I'm just working on some final refinements/testing. I
> > have used FreeMarker as a templating engine:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeMarker
> >
> > I've done only the JSF -> FreeMarker transition in this step, next step
> > would be to adapt some cool design from Gabriel.
> >
> > Viliam
> >
> > On 09/19/2013 03:29 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
> >> This may change depending on what we decide for M1, but I'm working
> >> right now on:
> >>
> >> * Getting Gabriel's new screens incorporated as best as possible into
> >> existing admin UI
> >> * I've designed on paper the core screens for admin UI.  I'll be
> >> implementing based on Gabriel's existing styles.  I'll need to have a
> >> feedback iteration loop with Gabrield to move forward.  It has to be
> >> give and take.  Meaning, I need to be allowed to improve Gabriel's
> >> screens and vice-versa.  It's seemed more one-way so far...
> >> * Reorganizing Javascript so we can work in parallel together
> >>
> >> I'll have something to show by next Tuesday.  I'll be committing early
> >> and often before then if you want to see what's going on.
> >>
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