Re: from Cforms to Wicket

Yep,
sounds like a lot of work and like re-inventing the wheel..

- mika -


18.2.2013 10:47, Francesco Chicchiriccò kirjoitti:
> On 17/02/2013 20:08, Mika M Lehtonen wrote:
>> Hi Francesco,
>> let me tell you what I have now.
>> I implemented a feedback web application for municipial use with 
>> C2.11. The app is built so that the administrator can create forms 
>> picking fields and controls he/she needs. These setting are saved 
>> into db. The end-user app reads these settings from db, creates XML 
>> definition and through XSL transforms these settings into valid 
>> Cforms definition/template and finally creates forms wanted out of 
>> this all.
>>
>> This is highly dynamic system where we also implemented special data 
>> model where horizontal tables are converted into vertical direction, 
>> that is, there is one row per fom field, not a column.
>>
>> I was warned about using C2.11 for this, but I wanted to use it 
>> anyway because I was familiar with it already. Now I would like to 
>> get rid of C2.11 but I really don't know how. I would like to switch 
>> into C3 but that is something I am not familiar with.
>>
>> I could go with the stream and use AJAX and like jQuery.. still i 
>> would have the same problem - how to create controls out of XML 
>> definition. So XML driven form platform is something I would prefer, 
>> you see, I would only need XSLT.
>>
>> I hope I made my needs little clearer.
>
> Yes, definitely.
> *
> *Basically, you need to dynamically build some web forms from an XML 
> definition you get from an external source: let me say that this is a 
> perfect suite for C2.1 (and C2.2) with CForms.
>
> Now, since you want to move away from C2.1 (and not for C2.2 I guess), 
> you'd like to have some tools that, parsing the XML form definition 
> generates a Wicket form, with all controls full featured.
>
> While this is perfectly feasible without C3 (I did something similar, 
> even though limited, in Apache Syncope), I'd think you could empower 
> the integration between C3 and Wicket for this purpose. Only, consider 
> that there is nothing implemented yet in this respect, so you would be 
> the first.
>
> Regards.
>
>> 17.2.2013 20:30, Francesco Chicchiriccò kirjoitti:
>>> On 15/02/2013 22:11, Mika M Lehtonen wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I have an application using dynamic Cforms (C2.11), that is, the 
>>>> Cforms definition and templates are created from dynamic XML 
>>>> through XSL.
>>>>
>>>> Can this be done with C3 and wickets?
>>>> From somewhere I read about the fact that with Apache Wickets you 
>>>> don't need any XML..
>>>
>>> Hi Mika,
>>> what do you want to achieve exactly?
>>>
>>> Apache Wicket is a component-based framework for developing web 
>>> applications: I know from their project site that the project claims 
>>> "a refreshing lack of XML", and I also know that Wicket fully 
>>> supports form processing.
>>>
>>> From the other side, Cocoon 3.0 features Wicket integration (more 
>>> details at [1]) that can help achieving some particular use cases.
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>> [1] 
>>> http://cocoon.apache.org/3.0/reference/html-single/index.html#wicket-integration
> -- 
> Francesco Chicchiriccò
>
> ASF Member, Apache Syncope PMC chair, Apache Cocoon PMC Member
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