Uri Kalish wrote:
Hi
Jurgen,
We, at
Mercury, are currently
developing a new JSF/Java product planned to be released at the end of
this
year, and we're looking for a view similar to the Outlook Calendar.
We
prefer not to use ActiveX control
or Java applet, so that leaves us with JSF component or some
HTML/_javascript_
solution. With the exception of the JSF Schedule component, all the
other
solutions I've seen are ugly, including Microsoft's HTML version of
the Outlook Calendar. So, at a first glance the Schedule component
seems like a
great solution for our problem. I see that there are no Sandbox nightly
builds on
the site so I'm using some old version from mid September I found on
someone's computer...
The best thing you can do is just check out the sources from SVN, and
build it yourself. Since the migration to maven this is really really
simple :) You can apply the latest patch locally (get it from JIRA
issue 1012) if it hasn't been applied yet.
Before
we rely on this component as
a part of our product, we need to make sure:
- Basic
Functionality
- The component enables
users to view, schedule and remove items.
No problem, all you need to do is write an implementation of the
ScheduleModel interface (or easier, extend the AbstractScheduleModel)
that fetches items from your database, and optionally adds and removes
items.
- Can support 10-20 items
in a week.
I have successfully tested it with 100+ items in a week
- Supports concurrent items
on the same time slot.
It does, in fact this is the reason I wrote the component, because I
have seen no elegant solution for this elsewhere. The rendering of
overlapping items is the same as in Outlook or Evolution. Try the demo
I would say :)
I have tested it on IE 6, Firefox 1 and 1.5, Opera 7 and 7.5 and
Konqueror. It also appears to be working on Safari but since I don't
have a Mac I haven't been able to test that myself.
- Code
Maturity
- Stable and does not crash.
It's quite stable, and any bugs will be fixed in the coming 3 months,
because at Ghent University we are about to start working on an
application using it which must go in production by April 1st.
- Customization
- Supports changing of
appearance, fonts, colors...
This was addressed in my last patch (1012). There are different ways to
do this: write your own theme, override CSS classes using the xxxClass
attributes, or writing your own ScheduleEntryRenderer implementation,
or a combination of these.
- Supports changing the
code if we must.
It's open source, so you can do what you want with it.
- Internationalization:
- Supports changing date
format.
Check
- Supports changing time
format.
Check
- Support changing
start-of-week day.
Not currently, although that shouldn't be too much trouble
- Supports changing names
of months, days, etc...
It uses the Java Locale mechanism
-
- Supports entering
non-English characters on the item text.
Depends on your database, and the encoding of your JSPs. I have tested
it with Japanese...
- Performance
- Has reasonable response
time.
Depends mostly on your database. The rendering is quite fast, as it
uses CSS2 absolute positioning and very few tables.
- Support
- Is there someone who can
help us if we have a problem?
If you have problems, just post a message on the mailing list, and I
will answer as soon as I can.
From:
Jurgen Lust [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday,
January 11, 2006
1:39 AM
To: MyFaces Discussion
Subject: Re: Schedule
component
Hi,
There has been some interest in the schedule component recently, so I'm
hoping
people are testing it well enough so that it will soon be ready for
tomahawk.
I've just submitted a patch (JIRA issue 1012) with a rather big update,
but I
haven't heard a reaction from any of the committers yet...
Jurgen
Uri Kalish wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a view
similar to the Outlook
Calendar.
I saw the Schedule
component but it's currently on
the Sandbox project.
Does anybody know when
will it become an 'official'
Tomahawk component?
Who can I contact for
more details about this
component?
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