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Components

• Status - already discussed this at RichFaces Team Meeting Minutes 9-22-2009
• Client-side library
  • Relation to std. Moajarra library
    • idea to replace jsf.js by providing our renderer for behaviors won't work, because jsf.js can contain another scripts necessary for JSF
    • Another options
      • override renderers for AJAX behavior to use some kind of richfaces.ajax function (i.e. all components should call RF JS API)
        
      • replace jsf.ajax functions by our own implementation by loading our client-side library after jsf.js
      • employ existing jsf.ajax functionality and extend it with our features
      • keep both implementations and let them work side-by-side - JSF components use jsf.ajax and RF components use richfaces.ajax
        • straight way to parallel request problems
      • Alex proposed to use custom behavior renderer that loads all libraries (standard and extension) and manages additional features as the best solution, so we'll go this way
  • List of features - most of this features are impossible to implement as extension to std. AJAX API
    
    • queue extensions
    • addition of external scripts/styles by AJAX request
    • server-side code should be able to add/redefine oncomplete/onbeforedomupdate handlers for the current request
    • cleanup for DOM elements and components
    • browser history support
    • generation of debug information for AJAX log - e.g. submitted parameter values
    • "push" feature
    • ...?
  • Design goals
    • graceful downgrade of functionality with the standard script
    • compatibility with 3rd party components (including std. JSF components as they're external for us)
    • clear API and documentation
• Queues
  • Improval for existing queues functionality
    • Ilya has updated spec. with that
  • Ilya shall add details for std. components behavior
    • JSF queuing is now opposite to updated spec.
• Data tables
  • Models implementation discussion thread
    • Everybody is welcome to comment in this forum thread

Community

• CDK walkthrough article
  
  • Alex has created a number of articles:
    
    • http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/richfaces40componentsdevelopmentkit is architectural
    • http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/RichFaces400ALPHA1CDKTutorial
  • Ilya is going to test it and will add created project archive to the article to ease walkthrough
• Wiki content should be split between 3.x and 4.x versions to avoid confusion between Ajax4JSF CDK (wiki search reveals number of articles for this) and RF4 CDK
• "How to build" article
  • To describe: new build system structure, necessary environment setup and basical usage
  • Anton will create draft of the article and e-mail it for review