There's a project concerning this at TagLibs.
http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/ultradev4-doc/intro.html
The DreamWeaver UltraDev is a very impressive package. But last I looked
it was still generating model 1 code ;-)
Matt Raible wrote:
>
> I would actually recommend writing more struts-extensions for Dreamweaver
> UltraDev. It's a great HTML/JSP editor, has a 78% marketshare (Dreamweaver
> does) and is easily extendible.
>
> I've been to Macromedia Dreamweaver seminars before, and they make creating
> "webforms" in jsps/asps look VERY easy.
>
> Matt
>
> --- James Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Craig--
> >
> > I've been working on a "Struts Console" which is a
> > GUI-based front-end for Struts. Right now the
> > functionality is limited to editing the
> > struts-config.xml, but I have aspirations of much
> > more.
> >
> > For instance I plan to have:
> >
> > + ability to build new form beans from JSPs (utilize
> > CodeMaker or the like)
> >
> > + ability to manage Application Resources files
> >
> > + etc, etc
> >
> > Certainly this could evolve into a full featured
> > application that would make developing Struts
> > applications very easy.
> >
> > -james
> >
> > --- Craig Tataryn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi all, I just wanted to give an observation and
> > > perhaps propose another "ToDo". I recently attended
> > > a ".NET roadshow" seminar in Minneapolis (btw: not
> > > worth the money, just buy a book and read it, all
> > > the instructors did was read the slides to us).
> > >
> > > Anyway, the thing I got the most out of was when
> > > they were displaying the features of Visual Studio
> > > 7.0. Specifically when creating "Web Forms". You
> > > basically create a form like you normally would for
> > > a windows application, except that the controls you
> > > select from are html controls. You then go about
> > > coding your events like you would a normal form.
> > >
> > > The IDE would then compile your application and
> > > create an ASPX page that displayed your form and a
> > > class file that would be used to handle events on
> > > the form (on the server side). So the compilier
> > > actually generates javascript code which will make
> > > calls out to the server when things like the
> > > "lostFocus" even happens on a text box, or the
> > > "Click" event happened on a button.
> > >
> > > Now people were really impressed with the fact that
> > > you could just code this program like you would a
> > > normal "VB" form, putting statements in event
> > > hanlders like "Text1.text = Text2.text" and have the
> > > view (the ASPX rendered HTML) display the changes.
> > > Now struts already does this type of binding for us
> > > (i.e myForm.text1 = myForm.text2), all we are
> > > missing is the nice GUI that allows us to "forget"
> > > we are writing a web application.
> > >
> > > I know JBuilder has extenisbility objects to allow
> > > you to hook into the IDE, does anyone here have
> > > exprience coding the JBuilder object model?
> > >
> > > I think this would make a good TODO because it
> > > allows "average" users the ability to create struts
> > > web apps without having to know too much about
> > > servlets, thus bringing struts to a wider audience.
> > >
> > > Let me know what you think.
> > >
> > > <tataryn:craig/>
