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

Thu Oct 9 16:44:47 EDT 2008

did'nt someone from this list by the name of dan blast someone mercilessly for a similar Off Topic question?

while we're on the subject I dont use facebook because one of the qualifying criteria is your age
so if youre over 40 they CAN legally d(s^r*m)n$t at ..

and thus all the wonderful pics of my far flung family i wont be able to see

Thank You
Martin
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> From: pmuir at redhat.com
> To: dan.j.allen at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [seam-dev] a modest seam-gen style upgrade
> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:22:48 +0200
> CC: seam-dev at lists.jboss.org
> 
> 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
> >>>>
> >>>> NOTE: While I make a strong effort to keep up with my email on a  
> >>>> daily
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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
> >>
> >> NOTE: While I make a strong effort to keep up with my email on a  
> >> daily
> >> basis, personal or other work matters can sometimes keep me away
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> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Dan Allen
> > Software consultant | Author of Seam in Action
> >
> > http://mojavelinux.com
> > http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction
> >
> > NOTE: While I make a strong effort to keep up with my email on a daily
> > basis, personal or other work matters can sometimes keep me away
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