JCAPS - page layout designer
My company is purchasing JCAPS 5.1.3, and I will be responsible for the design and implementation of the front end of an important application we are developing. A few questions -- (1) the web pages will be highly interactive and must include AJAX-type functionality.Does anyone know if this can be generated through the Page Layout Designer? -- (2) Can Page Layout Designer generate JSF, or just JSP and HTML? -- (3) I assume it is possible to modify generated client-side code (JSP, HTML, etc) "by-hand". Is that right? -- (4) Can pre-existing client-side code be imported into JCAPS, packaged as a web service, and then orchestrated into a composite application using JCAPS?
thanks to anyone with experience with these issues.
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mariona] at [2007-11-27 6:54:03]
# 1
Hi Marion,
Ad (2), (3): the output of eVision (eDesigner) is packaged as .war (.ear), so you will not get something like reusable source code which can be imported into another tool... and I don't recommend to try to extract it, really...
Ad (4): no (at least in no simple way)
Ad (1): if you need complex web client, use any other tool/framework you are experienced with/you like - I don't recommend using eVision for that. It is possible to make quite nice and complex UI in eVision, but it has some limitations which could come annoying later...
When you are in situation where you need to create eye-catching complex AJAX based web client it is much better to create in ie. Netbeans and do web services and their orchestration in Java CAPS (<marketing_buzz>there is no such product like JCAPS, just Java CAPS</marketing_buzz> :-)) and you will get nice SOA for entire organization.
# 2
Hi,
1 -> I think this is not one of JCAPS strong points.. I haven't touched it to make serious work, just to test, but seemed to me a bit simply. I think would be better trying to use another kind of tool for complex pages.
2,3 -> As stated on the post before me, it generates his own package and better dont touch it
4 -> If you can pack them as web services, you can integrate them in JCAPS, so you will be able to call them as another service (importing the wsdl), but dont expect to have much control on them. Probably you can publish them inside JCAPS Application Server without many trouble.
# 3
Thanks very much for your reply. We spoke with a rep from Sun today and he said almost the same thing as you (perhaps you also are a Sun rep(?))... to create the AJAX-enabled client code in NetBeans and do callbacks to Java CAPS to connect to db-based web services.He said in a year or so JCAPS would support AJAX functionality.
thanks again for your good advice.
# 4
We have been using JCAPS for a few months, and we were far from impressed with the Page Layouts.
We also looked at the possibility of using NetBeans for the GUI coupled with JCAPS. It seems that this solution will eliminate the PageFlows of JCAPS, which is one of the main reasons that we chose JCAPS (actually we chose iCAN ;) ) in the first place.
Are there any other possible solutions?
