Hi!
I am working on a project to create a Tapestry application
generator. This
will be for lightweight applications, i.e. the typical web
application not
requiring EJB and a application server, and all that heavy J2EE stuff.
[...]
I wonder if others are interested in this venture, people with
Tapestry/HiveMind/Cayenne and Velocity would be ideal. If so, it
would be
nice to set up an open source project.
If you know of anything simlar, please let me know.
Do you know Direct2Web? It's an old WebObjects technology where you
start a new
application with an EOModel (compareable to your Cayenne DB Model).
It's very
nice if you need a fast way to create a gui to your database.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/WebObjects/
Developing_With_D2W/index.html
Step 1: create a new project
Step 2: add you database model
Step 3: there's no step 3 ;-)
Ok, there are some more steps if you want your app to look nice and
work properly.
But it's already possible to work on your db after firing up your
application
following these two steps.
In a next step you start creating rules. D2W is using a set of rules
to change
the way your application works.You can create a rule for formatting
text fields,
for defining the order of the object properties, for displaying
relationsships
to other objects, etc.
It might be worth a look if you want to create a new OpenSource
project. There are
some nice ideas hidden in D2W.
I've seen a company that reworked Apples templates for D2W apps to be
fully xhtml
compliant and they did all customizing for their client gui using
CSS. It was a
really nice solution.
Christian
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