[seam-dev] Re: FormBuilder seam-gen extension announcement

[Tomas Cerny]

Hi Max,

thank you for the feedback.
It does not have to be an @Entity bean, you can use a simple POJO as well
for your form generation.

Tomas

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen <
max.andersen at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Tomas,
>
> Just wanted to say I like this idea as oppose to code generate the view.
>
> Does the beans you provide forms for have to be @Entity'ies ?
> Could I use a normal pojo ?
>
> /max
>
> > Hi, Tomas, fwding to seam-dev list.
> >
> > Perhaps you would also like to share this work in the user forum?
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Tomas Cerny <tom.cerny at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Dear Gavin King,
> >>
> >> I have developed a new tool for view form generation from entity beans
> that
> >> I think would be very useful for Seam developers.  I would like to get
> your
> >> feedback on the tool and ideas if you have time.  If you like my tool,
> I
> >> would like to discuss how we can best provide it to the Seam community.
> >> Here are details...
> >>
> >> I am a graduate student and ICPC frontend developer working on
> application
> >> that is build on JSF, facelets, Hibernate, Spring and Acegi.
> >> My research is in the next generation web application frameworks for
> the
> >> next generation of our application.
> >>
> >> Seam is great framework, and I love developing with it.  I started with
> >> seam-gen and am continuing with manual development.
> >> It is great for generation of a starter application, but its
> customization
> >> abilities are limited.  If I try to customize code generated by
> seam-gen, I
> >> can no longer regenerate.
> >>  Another problem that I had with seam-gen is that it generates forms
> with
> >> basic input components and does not offer any customization.  For
> example,
> >> for properties of an enumerate type, seam-gen's form field is an input
> text
> >> field; however, what I want is a drop-down list of the enumerated type
> >> values.
> >>
> >> To address these problems, I have developed a tool called FormBuilder
> that
> >> can fully generate view forms from entity beans and offers complete
> >> customization of input fields. My tool uses Hibernate-Validation
> >> (annotations). Developers can even define their own input components
> for
> >> form generation.  When the input components are wrapped as facelet tag,
> it
> >> can offer even more!
> >>
> >> Some features:
> >>
> >> The tool is completely configurable using annotations and XML.
> >> Each generated form can function in either read-only or editable model,
> >> depending on the "editable" attribute.
> >>
> >> The form uses configuration-by-exception for its field rendering for
> >> security
> >> Forms may be referenced by Facelets tags to decrease application
> coupling.
> >> Tool forces good practice for code management (different users same
> style)
> >> Entity field property propagation to the form allows client-side
> validation
> >> I provide two tag libraries with client-side validation and new input
> >> component types like Password, Link, Html, ColorPicker. (The first
> library
> >> is Seam+RichFaces, and the second library is simple JSF.)
> >> I also created new field annotations like (password, link, html,
> >> javaScriptPattern, formOrder) for complete form generation.
> >> Form creation and maintenance is completely handled by the tool.  After
> >> entity bean updates, "fresh" forms are autogenerated to match.
> >>  More information is available here:
> >>
> >> http://cs.ecs.baylor.edu/~cerny/formBuilder/guide.html<http://cs.ecs.baylor.edu/%7Ecerny/formBuilder/guide.html>
> >>
> >> I have also built an example application showing new components and
> client
> >> side validation (tested on 5 main browsers!)
> >>  It offers also comparison to forms generated by seam-gen.
> >>
> >> You can experiment with the application by going to
> >> http://fire.ecs.baylor.edu:8080/FormBuilderExample/home.seam (not
> >> official/private)
> >>
> >> Currently, you can download FormBuilder from
> >> http://cs.ecs.baylor.edu/~cerny/formBuilder/download<http://cs.ecs.baylor.edu/%7Ecerny/formBuilder/download>.
>  Later I am planning
> >> to put it on SourceForge.net.
> >>
> >> I welcome any feedback (even bad) on this work.
> >>
> >> Tomas
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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