Component Implementation

• RF-7642 - Primary jira for component impl in A2
• RichFaces Data Iteration Components (DataTables) - RF-7852
• A4j Core Components Requirements - RFPL-97 RF-7816
  • queue RFC's for 4.x section started in requirement document
• RichFaces 4.0 Component Related Topics

Component Migration Planning

• RichFaces 4.0 ALPHA2 Component Migration Plan Status

Semantic Layout Migration and Plans <Lex>

• There are components where we need to change layouts because now  theirs layouts are complicated and/or haven't  some functionality:

  dataTable
  scrollableDataTable
  comboBox 
  extendedDataTable
  inplaceInput
  inplaceSelect
  modalPanel
  panelBar
  panelMenu
  suggestionbox
  tabPanel
  toolBar
  tree

   

  Implementation proposal

  dataTable, extendedDataTable, scrollableDataTable - we  need add new functionality and make new light (semantic) layout (see Ilya’s post)
  
  

  comboBox, inplaceInput, inplaceSelect, suggestionbox – need to make new light inline layout

  
  modalPanel – it’s very big question. In  my opinion current layout is very complicated, but… It’s topic for future  discussion

  
  panelBar, panelMenu,  tabPanel – need to make light layouts

• • TabPanel implementation discussion forum thread

  toolBar – need to make light layouts  and change bullets functionality

  
  tree – need to make  light layouts (and may be it is necessary to add new functionality like  “cutting” long names)

Core Framework Requirements <Alex, Nick, Pavel>

• RichFaces 4.0 AJAX RF-7888
• Design of RichFaces <a4j:queue/> RF-7893
• Resources  
  • Transform RichFaces resources to use JSF 2.0 Resource Handling instead of Richfaces filter: RF-7562 - no need to update all resources currently
  • Proprietary "xcss" stylesheet-description language should be replaced by the native CSS with EL-expressions and conditional elements:RF-7567
• Skinning    
  • Plans for A2?
  • Table Skinning RF-7886 RF-7887
  • Basic skinning support and advanced behavior RF-7814 RFPL-42
• Behavior integration RF-7822

CDK <Alex>

• Review Existing Features RFPL-79
• A2 Plans
  • EL Parser RF-7837 + RF-7730
  • Template Compiler RF-7732
  • Document Generation ( do not like this ) RF-7840
  • Unit tests generation RF-7790

• Support compiling of standard JSF 2 composite components into real components
• real world use case
• improve performance

Misc Plans and Items

Unordered list of items that also need to be discussed.

• 508 Compliance    
  • Several community requests
  • Push for project in general to support
  • Difficulty?
• Code review for A1 codebase    
  • Client-side code - RFPL-108
  • Server-side code - RFPL-107
• Packaging     
  • dropping org.ajax4jsf?
• Items from JSF 2.1    
  • What needs working around  
    • RichFaces 4.0 Core: AJAX - JavaScript components: http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=158804
  • What can we prototype  in RF  
    • RichFaces 4.0 Planning: JSF 2.1 Features
• Copyright Headers    
  • Need to use RedHat Copyright and license header - RF-4793 RFPL-82
• Code style plugin and enforcement's    
  • Best approach and plan to implement - RFPL-156
  • Additional tools  
    • Sonar
    • QALab
• ASL licensed files     
  • What files are in 3.3.X
  • Want to be careful what we include with 4.0
• Testing Framework    
  • JSFUnit prototype tests
  • Selenium
  • jsf-test
  • Finalize approach for release
• Integration testing with ICEFaces and other component libraries    
  • Probably not start this until BETA1/2
• Portal testing and integration

Examples  

• Publicly deployed examples for A2: usage of jboss.org hosting
• photoalbum application plans
• Decreasing efforts for porting automated tests for demos