[seam-dev] jsf in seam 3

[Dan Allen]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Clint Popetz <cpopetz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 29 Apr 2009, at 07:10, Dan Allen wrote:
> >> Instead of thinking of replacing the class 1-for-1, think if perhaps
> there
> >> is base functionality that would be relevant for any environment and
> >> specific functionality for a framework like JSF. Then, you can create a
> >> generic class and then specialize it using a deployment type and
> >> @Specializes. Two examples of this so far are
> >> StatusMessages/FacesStatusMessages and Expressions/FacesExpressions. I
> >> believe that Selector is another candidate for this. There is nothing
> >> specific to JSF about a selector, but it just happens to be in the JSF
> >> package in Seam 2.1.
>
> I'm glad to see that this type of consideration is being given to
> making Seam3 independent of view layer choice.  However, I want to
> point out that using a deployment type and @Specializes would seem to
> place us in the same situation as Seam 2.x with respect to the view
> layers co-existing in the same deployment, which
> https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-3645 was meant to address.
>
> In other words, I'd rather that the choice of the StatusMessages bean
> that will be activated isn't based on deployment type, but rather is
> chosen at runtime based on the type of request, using the pattern in
> the patch for the above jira issue.  Deployment types would of course
> still be used to choose which implementations of things like
> StatusMessages are available.
>
> I'd be willing to do the work to make that happen, if it can be
> coordinated in such a way that I'm not getting in your way.


Ah, good thinking. I was thinking too narrowly. I'm always open to
collaboration, and I work well with diff and patch...so if there is a patch
you would like to share with me (pre-commit) I would be glad to test it out
and discuss with you possible next steps.

-Dan

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