[seam-dev] a modest seam-gen style upgrade

Wed Oct 8 23:45:42 EDT 2008

Got a screenshot?

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
> You may have noticed by now that seam-gen has gotten a modest style
> upgrade in the trunk. This upgrade is based on "style mods" I have
> been maintaining while working on the source code for Seam in Action
> (I had to dress up the screenshots for the show). Understand that this
> is just a first step in making seam-gen applications look more
> presentable, but nonetheless, and important first step.
>
> Below is a list of the enhancements (perhaps something worth blogging about):
>
> 1. Added a favicon of the Seam logo
>  - personally, I think this is the coolest and simplest enhancement
>  - by the way, we should consider use this favicon for
> seamframework.org because I made it transparent
> 2. Icons for each level of error message (warn, error, info)
> 3. Stripped the border and background from global messages and fixed
> the indenting to accommodate the icons
>  - the messages were still using the style from the original orange
> theme seam-gen projects had
> 4. Used a RichFaces XCSS resource so that the theme matches the
> currently selected RichFaces theme
>  - I also applied some of the RichFaces gradients to form controls to
> make the forms look better (w/ very little CSS)
>
> The only downside of the new theme is that the Visual Editor in
> JBossTools doesn't understand the XCSS file (which resides in the
> stylesheets directory). Therefore, I left behind the old theme.css and
> put an instruction in template.xhtml about switching to the static
> theme.css for previews. It would be great if the Visual Editor could
> interpret the XCSS file. This opens up so much flexibility for
> extending the RichFaces theme.
>
> The commit also came with some other goodies:
>
> 1. seam-gen WAR projects now have a consolidated compile target
> 2. two new targets reexplode and redeploy, which do a clean unexplode
> explode or clean undeploy deploy, respectively
> 3. restart now detects if you have deployed an exploded or packaged
> archive and restarts it appropriately (before it bombed if you had a
> packaged archive deployed)
> 4. EAR projects now compile groovy scripts on the classpath (deploying
> raw .groovy files requires more research)
> 5. Added a "head" named insertion in the template.xhtml so that you
> can add additional markup in <head> on a per-page basis
> 6. Global messages now reside in template.xhtml with a Facelets
> parameter you can use to turn them off on a per-page basis
> 7. Changed src/action to src/hot and src/model to src/main
> 8. Added the view folder to the classpath for tests so that page
> actions defined in *.page.xml are invoked during testing (previously
> the tests only read the global pages.xml file)
> 9. Added a javadoc task to the build
> 10. The default username is admin and the password is blank.
> Developers never got to see the failure login scenario out of the box
> because we let any credentials through (obviously, with the new
> security stuff, we don't even need the authenticator component, but
> that is a next step perhaps)
>
> All in all, what these upgrades should do is make your demos of Seam
> look just a touch prettier and give you a few more wrenches for
> development. There are still plenty of improvements that could be
> made.
>
> -Dan
>
> --
> Dan Allen
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>
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