Did you play around yet to see how Wicket and VFS work together? Eelco
On 2/7/07, Mark R. Andrachek, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? 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