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WebFaces was developed as the true Visual RAD tool for TICL. It was built
entirely as a plugin to Netbeans, but it was never released. Netbeans, at the time
prior to version 3, was the wrong choice both from a marketing and technical
perspective. Still, much of the functionality of WebFaces is still worth exploring
and perhaps digging from the ashes! For this reason, we have open-sourced it
and made accessible for whoever has time and desir to play with it.
Later, a standalone version was developed with the page editor, jEdit as a source
editor and an embedded Tomcat.
Core Features
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| Page Designer |
The page designer is full-blown JSP page creation tool with a component
palette for all TICL UI elements, property editors, complex component
editor wizards for menus, table views and the like. You can switch from
a page designer view to code view to run-time view. The page designer also
supports the high-level layout managers of TICL thus allowing you to easily
compose the visual layout of page and manipulate layout containers as any
other UI element.
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| Code Generation Wizards |
The code generation wizards allow you to create event listeners, new components,
component instances, pages etc. in a matter of a few keystrokes and mouse clicks.
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| Styling Editor |
The styling editor allows you to easily work with TICL styling objects
(styles, skins, renderers, themes, styling variables) by providing an
explorer view of all styling objects defined for a web application. Advanced
property editors for the various types of skin parameters such as a
color chooser, template editor, CSS style editor and
many, many more are included.
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| Instant Run-Time View |
You can execute your JSP page instantly in an embeded mainstream browser by simply
switching to the run-time view of a page. [Note that this feature
may not be available on all platforms.]
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| User Agent Capabilites Explorer |
Work with your user agent capabilities configuration in a convenient explorer
through a structured view of the various browsers' properties, both static
and dynamic.
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| Server-Side Events Explorer |
Manipulate server-side events, listeners, event factories etc. from a simple
to use explorer that provides a coherent view of all event/controller logic
of your application.
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Get It
Webfaces is available only in source form, from the following Subversion URL:
https://svn.kobrix.com/webstuff/webfaces
Use your favorite Subversion client to access it. Let us know if you are using it!
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