[CDK] Few questions about dependencies and tags in jspx temp

[czerwiu]

Hi all,
I've started to discover a power of CDK while talking about custom components creation. This is very interesting issue for me, so I suffer a bit because of poor documentation covering this subject. I've found only a few articles in the Wiki (a bit outdated) and one article by Wesley Hales mentioned in other posts. So, if you know any other resources that I can use to learn, I will appreciate your help.

However I managed to build my first component jar but I encountered some problems. The first one was that after I had called:

mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.richfaces.cdk
 -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-jsf-component -DarchetypeVersion=3.1.1-GA
 -DgroupId=org.mycompany -DartifactId=mylib

I have had to add some lines manually to the generated pom.xml file, so as to my make my build successful. That was about the dependencies which were not contained in the pom file:

<dependencies>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>junit</groupId>
 <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
 <version>3.8.1</version>
 <scope>test</scope>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.richfaces.framework</groupId>
 <artifactId>richfaces-impl</artifactId>
 <version>3.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.richfaces.ui</groupId>
 <artifactId>core</artifactId>
 <version>3.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 </dependency>
 </dependencies>

After I had added above code to the pom.xml file manually, my build has succeded. So I'm wondering if something is wrong with the cdk, or is it my bad. The strange thing is that when I was using -DarchetypeGroupId=org.ajax4jsf.cdk -DarchetypeVersion=1.1.0 parameters everything was OK.


My second question is about jspx templates and tags that are being used there. These are:

xmlns:f="http://ajax4jsf.org/cdk/template"
 xmlns:c=" http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns:ui=" http://ajax4jsf.org/cdk/ui"
 xmlns:u=" http://ajax4jsf.org/cdk/u"
 xmlns:x=" http://ajax4jsf.org/cdk/x"

I was not able to find any information about meaning and potentialities of mentioned tags (prefixes) so I'm not able to use them efficiently. If somebody can provide any explanation, documentation or useful links I will be very grateful.

Thanks in advance!
Pawel

[sergeysmirnov]

Add you vote for the CDK Doc on http://labs.jboss.com/wiki/RichFacesFuture

You are right about the dependencies. That what you need to add.

The Programming Reference for the tags used in template does not exist yet.

The list can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/2etf7e

The existing RichFaces components' template is a good source to see how they are used on the practice.

[czerwiu]

Ok, thanks for your reply. Do you know at least approximately when the mentioned Programming Reference is about to come into existence? I just want to know whether it is a matter of days, weeks, months or years :]

Regards
Pawel

[pmuir]

Months probably.

[demetrio812]

Ok, but can someone post an updated start up (and working) document for CDK?

or update this:

http://labs.jboss.com/wiki/en/UsingCDKStartUp

I'm having a lot of issue just trying to create an empty component...

Thanks a lot!

demetrio

[sergeysmirnov]

A lot of issues?

Hmm, How empty your component is?

[demetrio812]

Hi!
after trying all the possibilities I just moved the component in a shorter and without spaces path and it worked...

Thanks anyway...

btw it is better you update the documentation on wiki when you have time...

I'm writing a blog post for my first component :)

Thank you!

Demetrio