Hi Vincent, your proposed integration with Jspresso sounds great. :-)
Just wanted to let you know quickly that I'll contact you directly asap as well. TTYL, Andreas -- Andreas Ecker Project Lead http://qooxdoo.org On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 10:30 +0200, Vincent Vandenschrick wrote: > Dear qooxdoo users, > > I'm leading the Jspresso project. Jspresso is an opensource LGPL > framework dedicated at building business RIAs that can be deployed using > various UI technologies without needing any UI specific skills (nor UI > code). Until now, I've implemented the following UI engines for Jspresso : > - Swing > - Canoo ULC (server-side swing-like library) > - WingS (serverside AJAX UI library) > - Flex > > I am currently evaluating qooxdoo as a UI candidate for Jspresso since I > was really impressed by the quality of the internal architecture as well > as the overall L&F of qooxdoo applications. I think that the integration > would be quite straightforward based on what has been achieved for the > Flex (over BlazeDS) front-end (all server-side code can be reused and > only the client engine has to be ported). The clean qooxdoo MVC binding > architecture would perfectly fit. > > I still have several concerns that I would like to have suggestions for : > > - I've never developed a line of Javascript (not a big issue since 6 > month ago I had never touched a line of ActionScript and the Flex > frontend is fine now). What would you recommend for the development > environment? I would like to stick to Eclipse though and have the > qooxdoo build integrated to the overall FW build just by handling a new > source folder in the Eclipse java project. Same goes for debugging. As > an example, FlexBuilder allowed me to seamlessly integrate a flex source > folder into the FW java project. > > - The actual Jspresso builds are entirely performed using maven. This is > really a must-have for me. Reading the docs, qooxdoo relies on custom > Python scripts for all the operations that have to be handled on a > qooxdoo project. But I've read on the mailing lists that some users did > perform an integration into maven. The Jspresso/qooxdoo engine would > actually be a maven module for me. As an example, I've used the > flex-mojos maven plugin to seamlessly integrate the Jspresso/flex > frontend as a maven project module. I don't think that there is such a > plugin available for qooxdoo. I'm taking any advice on how to make the > qooxdoo build part of an overall maven multi-module build... > > Thanks for your suggestions, > Vincent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
