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

Pete Muir pmuir at redhat.com
Thu Oct 9 13:22:48 EDT 2008 

Well you got mine wrong. It's amazing what Facebook will tell you :p

On 9 Oct 2008, at 08:45, Dan Allen wrote:

> Haha, you may be wondering how I figured out Gavin's birthday. It's
> amazing what grep will tell you ;)
>
> -Dan
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Ah, yes, I forgot to send the screenshots. Here's the eye candy.
>>
>> Disclaimer: The RichFaces colors don't always line up perfectly. It
>> was a bit of a game to find the right color to assign to each  
>> element.
>> Of course, it is simple enough to override the colors however you
>> choose, this is just a starting point.
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Gavin King <gavin at hibernate.org>  
>> wrote:
>>> 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
>>>> Software consultant | Author of Seam in Action
>>>>
>>>> http://mojavelinux.com
>>>> http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gavin King
>>> gavin.king at gmail.com
>>> http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin
>>> http://hibernate.org
>>> http://seamframework.org
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dan Allen
>> Software consultant | Author of Seam in Action
>>
>> http://mojavelinux.com
>> http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction
>>
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>
>
>
> -- 
> Dan Allen
> Software consultant | Author of Seam in Action
>
> http://mojavelinux.com
> http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction
>
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