So if you have 25 customers with custom look and feels, you have 25 _variation files, each specific to a customer. Or make it 50, or 100, or 1,000 customers.
You don't want to deploy all the variations to all the customers (they hold copyrights on some of their graphics and other ui elements, so legally you can't!). And you don't want to build 25 or 1,000 customer specific application jars. How do you handle that? What I'm looking for is a way for the app to be identical, regardless of to which customers machine it's deployed to, and for the ui resources (not just css and graphics, but html too) to be pluggable at runtime (without resorting to storing them in a database for example). I just though VFS might be a way to keep that neat and tidy, especially when you start getting into large numbers of components and variations. Mark On 2/7/07, Igor Vaynberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wicket also caches the markup, so this isnt exactly going to work. > > wicket has what is known as style and variation > > that means your component for MyPage.class can have alternative markups such > as > > MyPage_style.html or MyPage_style_variation.html > > style is set on session and is a session-wide "skin" while variation is > scoped to component instance. > > -igor > > > > On 2/7/07, Mark R. Andrachek, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Greetings! > > > > I just recently discovered wicket and have been playing around with > > it. I'm impressed so far, it seems to be just what I was looking for. > > > > I've also been playing around with apache/jakarta commons vfs module > > (just released 1.0 this past December), which provides i/o access to > > files within a zip/tar/jar. There are several programs I've seen in > > Linux that use a tar file to contain theme information (graphics, > > stylesheets, etc), and read files from the tar directly. > > > > So it seems to me a rather natural fit from a deployment perspective > > to actually separate the HTML, CSS, and graphics out into another > > module. So you could change the UI at any time without re-deploying > > your application, and you wouldn't have to be bothered with expanding > > or deploying anything extra. > > > > In case you're wondering, the VFS module handles caching of extracted > > content, but in general using 0 compression works the best. > > > > In thinking this through, one of the issues I can see with this is > > that the UI archive, if it contains css/javascript/html, etc. that > > isn't handled by wicket, will need to have some other java based > > interface to get at it (a getFile servlet or something). > > > > Now, I know, you're probably better off in most situations performance > > wise having a separate web server handle pushing your static content, > > but having it all in one easily deployable package is very attractive > > too. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > Mark > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier. > > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > Wicket-user mailing list > > Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier. > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Wicket-user mailing list > Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
