webmail client (jsf and ajax related)

[cherngje]

Hi there,

Ok, here is what i got so far. I found couple frameworks that can be used for ajax and jsf.

AjaxAnywhere: http://ajaxanywhere.sourceforge.net/
and
AJAX-JSF Framework: http://smirnov.org.ru/en/ajax-jsf.html

Those two frameworks should be helpful when I am programming ajax with jsf (imho less javascript gets involved, cleaner the code is going to be). However, I believe that both frameworks are under Apache License, Version 2.0. I am not sure if Apache license is compatible with LGPL.

There is another resource called Echo2: http://www.nextapp.com/products/echo2/

and check out their webmail demo: http://demo.nextapp.com/Email/app

For Echo2, developer writes the pure java code, and the framework will generate the javascript and html dynamically. Echo2 can be licensed under LGPL.

Even though Echo2 is nice, I would still prefer work with jsf. Just because I can play with JBoss Seam as well :P. Well, the real reason is that because jsf application is much easier to be transfer into the portlet project in the future.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0406_barcia/0406_barcia.html
http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/portalserver/reference/techart/jsf-portlets.html
http://raibledesigns.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JSFPortlet
http://portals.apache.org/bridges/multiproject/portals-bridges-jsf/index.html

And I am sure that JBoss AS has (or will have) this feature. :)


Please let me know if I can use any Apache licensed open source projects for developing webmail client for JBoss mail server. (Andy prefer everything to be LGPL compatible if possible).

Thanks

[acoliver]

Great. There is also this: http://dojotoolkit.org/docs/getting_started_with_packaged_dojo.html

Yes Apache and BSD are fine. GPL would not be. Basically as long as we can release the work as LGPL I'm happy. (This isn't a comment on GPL itself just a comment that we want to release under LGPL so using GPL in our stuff would be problematic)

you might check over with the portal wonks on the portal forum and see what they are doing too.. Other than the stuff they're doing with the hibernate people: http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/rrusso/2005/10/18/JBoss_World_Barcelona_Recap.txt
that we don't want to talk about :-)

[jschlier]

Hi,
I've found the ajax-based Rialto Toolkit (http://rialto.application-servers.com/) which supports jsf. It looks nice but it's still beta.
I'm also looking for an jsf and ajax related gui toolkit with an open source licence. Please let me know if you have found something interesting.

Thanks

[acoliver]

I really like openlaszlo.org. I think we could live with it not being JSF/etc if it looked as good as their stuff. the framework is opensource.

http://linuxintegrators.com/acoliver/code/2005/11/30/x-0136.html