On 10/21/07, Mario Ivankovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I sent out an e-mail to the Shale mailing list a week or so ago about the > > possibility of merging Shale with MyFaces. Development of Shale has become > > somewhat stale, and I'd rather see MyFaces pickup the pieces than have the > > code base atrophy The overwhelming consensus for the Shale list is "yes" > > (and Craig is no exception). What does the MyFaces PMC think? > > > I am +1. > > I think we just have to define which modules we would like to take over: > (BTW, this list is not to offend anyone, if this might happen, then > sorry in advance - it might be just due to not sensitively enough > choosen english wording.) > > > * Application Controller > Don't know. I thought action oriented frameworks are outdated, though, > Seam seems to introduce this paradigm again too. > > * Clay > Don't know. I am happy that we (I) moved away from html to components. > > * Core Library > Might be a must have > > * Dialog Manager > * Dialog Manager (Basic Implementation) > * Dialog Manager (SCXML Implementation) > The Dialog Manager might be a next step for MyFaces Orchestra. Anyway, I > hope that one of the original developers is still there to help out with > things. > > * Remoting > Unsure, as most of this can be done with PPR too. > > * Spring Integration > Unsure, I didn't get whats the advantage to the intregration with Spring > > * Test Framework > Must have I think > > * Tiger Extensions > Interesting, however, I'd like to tell everyone to use Spring as MB > facility. And then Spring needs to provide such annotations (which are > already existent I think) > > * Tiles Integration
This is one class[1] and despite what the shale-tiles pom[2] declares, it doesn't relate to/depend on any other parts of shale - just JSF and Tiles. So it could just as easily be moved to the tiles TLP. Having said that, I suggested this a while ago and it was rejected then[3] Niall [1] http://tinyurl.com/2ekcr6 [2] http://tinyurl.com/ytg7q2 [3] http://tinyurl.com/2y6ull > * Validator Support > A generic client/server validation library for JSF would be REALLY nice. > Just, I don't like the idea just having a single component for this > (val:commonsValidator), at least, this one needs to be extended. > > * View Controller > This needs to be reviewed and merged with the Orchestra one if possible > > > I am not going to vote an any of these components yet, first, I'd like > to see a discussion about them. > The reason is simple, even MyFaces has some "man/women power" problems > currently I think. If no one is willing to pick up one of these modules > they are dead in MyFaces land too. > Point is, that too many dormand modules in MyFaces might harm the > MyFaces community. We might create a dormand section where we move those > modules then to express that we are waiting for someone with some urge > to pick them up again. > > Ciao, > Mario > >
