On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:13 AM, glenn <gl...@exmbly.com> wrote: > > Timothy, > > I'm still not convinced that Lift applications can be modularized as > simply as you suggest. > Do you have any samples of your MyLib.init? How do you handle the non- > PF's, like schemify and setSiteMap?
I typically return my menu items from my init function. You can call schemifier from within your init function. > > As for templates, I've learned that you can use the templating > mechanism in Loc to eliminate the need for > html files, but that's only a small part of the problem. > > Glenn... > > On Jul 27, 4:01 pm, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu> wrote: > > Hi Glen... > > > > I actually do a lot of this - we have a product at work and i've just > > written a bunch of abstractions for work which just require me to do: > > > > MyLib.init > > > > In the boot file of a new application and then everything wires up - I > > couldn't think of anything more straightforward? > > > > The vast majority of stuff in lift is done with PF's, so you can > > pretty much just write them in external jars, and import them - my 3rd > > part stuff usually has a lift-webkit dependency so that I can just do > > the LiftRules.disptach.append stuff directly in the init method, but > > its really no biggy and saves boilerplate. > > > > So given your example, this scheme should work right? > > > > Cheers, Tim > > > > On Jul 27, 11:52 pm, glenn <gl...@exmbly.com> wrote: > > > > > I'm interested in abstracting out useful features from my Lift > > > applications for ease of reuse, but I haven't found an easy way to do > > > it. I find myself creating a new Lift aplication for each feature, > > > with all the baggage (bootstrapping, etc.), and I then have to do a > > > lot of code modification to the application I'm adding the feature to > > > in order to get it to work. > > > > > For example, suppose I want to add role-based user login to an > > > application that already has a User model just by dropping in a jar > > > file with the new feature. I don't see how to do it without some > > > boostrapping modifications. > > > > > Has anyone really tried to modularize their Lift development. I'd be > > > very interested in some suggestions. > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
