[seam-dev] laying the tracks for Seam 3

[Pete Muir]

On 21 Apr 2009, at 22:34, Jay Balunas wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>>>> faces (which would have page actions, faces messages, and  
>>>>> perhaps engulf the current ui too)
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>>>> Sounds good. We should impl page actions on top of JSF2 events I  
>>>> think. FacesMessages aren't needed as they are now stored in the  
>>>> flashscope by default.
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>>> Pete - We had talked about having the ui component being separate  
>>> from seam core and not depend on it.  This would allow application  
>>> to who are not using seam to take advantage of the ui component.   
>>> This came up a while back in a discussion about the RichFaces  
>>> validation components and moving them to seam-ui.
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>>> Would this current approach satisfy that?
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>> Yes. As I keep saying "there is no Seam core" in Seam 3 - all  
>> modules will *just* depend on any JSR-299 impl :-) But you are  
>> actually asking "Can the faces module degrade gracefully such that  
>> what can be used in a plain JSF2 environment - no 299 - works" I  
>> think?
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> I misspoke regarding seam-core :-(
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> I really mean depending on any other seam classes in other modules  
> ( including 299).  If we are going to migrate some RichFaces  
> components to seam-ui.  I just want to make sure we don't end up  
> requiring users to include X # of seam modules, and/or 299.
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> iirc - I think we were discussing some of the bean validation code.   
> We should discuss other components as well.

Ok, well we can add extra rules to this module:

* no non-optional dependencies on other jars (must be self contained)
* bean validation must have no deps outside BV api

I think it would be sensible to add a short contract.txt to each  
module to include these requirements. Shane, could you add these?


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