1. JSPX WEB TIER IS NO MORE A CONCERN
Amr ElAdawy
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2. Agenda
Yet Another Framework!
Design Goals.
Features.
Hello Web.
Under the Hood.
Hit the Highway!
Have Your Say.
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3. Yet Another Framework!
What is Jspx?
Which needs Jspx satisfies?
How close is it to JSF, Struts, Wicket,….?
Do You need to Learn something new?
Are you using a productive web framework?
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4. Design Goals
Developer Friendly
stay away from freak errors, misleading messages and be more close to logic.
Web Layer is no more a concern.
redundant tasks are implemented. Easy to use
Develop Once Run Everywhere it is all about HTML
no coupling with any application server.
Zero Configuration
no more fancy xml configurations.
No Magic
nothing here you cannot do yourself.
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5. Features
Web Forms with post back events. Dependency Injection
Validators (Server/Client side) +Grouping.
Data Controls Sorting, Paging, Export to Excel
DataTable
full use cases without
ListTable single line of code
Repeater
Model/View Binding(Jspx Bean request, session, conversation).
Localization/ Resource Bundle.
Page Templates (Master/Content Page).
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6. Features
Integration with JAAS
Easy control on Page life Cycle
Easy to use with ready made projects.
Ajax is just easier!
<AjaxPanel>
Existing HTML
</AjaxPanel>
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7. Hello Web 0/3
3 Clicks to go
Development
Configurations Form per Case
units per Form
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8. Hello Web 1/3
Prepare your project.
just define 2 servlets in your web.xml file (almost ZERO configurations).
web.xml
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9. Hello Web 2/3
Development units.
form based units ,each business case has a form, each form has two developing units (jspx,java).
*.java
*.jspx
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10. Hello Web 3/3
Now You Are Ready
your code (Jspx, Java) will be merged and rendered as HTML
*.jspx
html
*.java
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12. Under the Hood! How did we built it?
Code Metrics
Name Value
Total Lines of Code 14,693
Number of Classes 132
Number of Methods 1,259
Number of Interfaces 10
Depth of Inheritance Tree 2.818
Jspx Jar (293 KB)
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13. Under the Hood! How does it go?
Cache
Page Model Repository
Composer http request
Request Handler
Request Handler
jspx
file
Jspx core
Page
Controller
http response
User
Code
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14. Under the Hood! Where does it fit?
Web Tier
java
JSPX
XHTML
Servlet
jspx
J2EE
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15. Hit the Highway!
What did we miss?
Are we Ready yet?
What is Next?
Eclipse Plug-in
CMS
Stay Updated:
http://jspx.sourceforge.net
http://jspx-press.blogspot.com
support.jspx@gmail.com
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