Sorry, my son playing around with my machine ... Anyway, PaxWicket exposes e.g. Pages as OSGi services, so you could deliver different versions of that from different bundles and just ask for the page factory with the specified style and variant parameters.
Not sure about the details but I think that would be a pluggable way forward. http://wiki.ops4j.org/confluence/display/ops4j/Pax+Wicket /peter On 2/8/07, Peter Neubauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mmmh, > I would say there is a chance that OSGi and servicesare something to > look at, especially if you lo62 at > > On 2/8/07, Mark R. Andrachek, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the IResourceStreamLocator is probably what I'm looking for, > > I'll see if I can't give it ago this evening. > > > > On 2/7/07, Igor Vaynberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ah, well if you dont need to switch these things on the fly it becomes > > > much > > > simpler > > > > > > you can have your build script copy the proper resources in place, or you > > > can write your own IResourceStreamLocator to load them from anywhere you > > > want - there is an example in wicket-examples for custom markup loading. > > > > > > -igor > > > > > > > > > > > > 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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