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VÃtor Souza's
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WebWork.
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WebWork
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Projects
If you have any questions, you can ask them at the user forum/mailing list. Please be sure to read the FAQ before asking any questions.
- Overview
- Project Information
- FAQ
- Tutorial
- Cookbook
- Reference
- Related Projects
(details on each of the above follows)
Overview
- What is WebWork
- Comparison to Struts (Tapestry, VRaptor, JSF, etc.?)
- WebWork community
- Mailing lists / Forum
- Bug tracker
- Wiki
- How to contribute?
- Articles and press about WebWork
- Projects using WebWork / Testimonials
Project Information
- License
- Deployment notes
- WebWork versions
- Current release
- Previous releases
- Migrating from WebWork 1.x;
- Dependencies
FAQ
- Category 1
- Category 2
- Etc.
Tutorial
- Downloading and installing WebWork
- Setting up the test environment (to test tutorial source code)
- Basic configuration and your first action (Hello WebWorld)
- Understanding actions (includes note on displaying data using Scriptlets)
- Understanding results
- Meet WebWork tag library (would also explain a little bit of ONGL)
- Evaluating other view options: Velocity
- Evaluating other view options: FreeMarker
- Understanding interceptors
- Performing validation
- Performing dependency injection (IoC) through components
- Going i18n (internationalization)
Cookbook
- Tips and tricks on Application Servers (this was in "Overview")
- Accessing application, session and request objects;
- How to format dates and numbers;
- Other stuff from the revised Cookbook...
All the tips in the Cookbook should be revised. Some of them could belong to the tutorial instead (basic stuff). 3rd party integration tips could be separated from the rest.
Also, it would be good if all of them also followed the same structure, kind of like a tutorial lesson, but on advanced topics. The differences between the Tutorial and the Cookbook would be:
| Tutorial | Cookbook |
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User level required: | Begginner | Intermediate |
Availability of Source code: | In the documentation and in the | Only in the documentation, and may not be complete. |
Should be read in sequence? | Yes. | No. |
Reference
I like Jay Bose's reference TOC (below). On top of it, I'd suggest:
Remove "What is WebWork" and "Getting Started/Deployment Notes";
Replace them with "Introduction", in which there would be instructions to read the Overview first and proceed to the tutorial if the reader wants to get started;
Append "/ Dependency Injection" to "IoC", because some people may know it only by the name "Dependency Injection";
Group "JSP & Velocity Tags" with "WebWork Freemarker Support" to create a single section that contains everything related to user interface (in subsections);
"JSP Expression Language Comparison with WebWork 1.x" should be in "Migrating from WebWork 1.x", in the "Project Information" section;
Add to that same UI topic: JavaScript validation and DWR support (is this in 2.2?);
WebFlow would be in "Related Projects";
Have "3rd Party Integration" be links to Cookbook pages that explain how to integrate with SiteMesh, Spring, Pico, Hibernate, JUnit, Quartz, etc.
Related Projects
- WebFlow (graphical chart tool)
- EclipseWork (Eclipse Plugin)
- IDEA Plugin
- WebWork Optional
- Etc. ?
Jay Bose's Suggestions
Suggested standalone documents (that may be viewed as single html, multiple html chapters, or PDF):
- Reference manual
- Tutorial
Suggested wiki sections/pages:
- FAQ
- License
- Cookbook
- Webwork Community
- Webwork versions
- Articles about Webwork
- Projects using Webwork
- Comparison to Struts
Suggested Reference TOC:
- What is Webwork – also explain what Webwork is not.
- Architecture
- Getting Started/Deployment Notes
- Configuration
- Interceptors
- Action Chaining
- IOC
- JSP & Velocity Tags – this would be the current tag information, combined with the current "JSP Expression Language Comparison with Webwork 1.x" pages
- Webwork Freemarker Support
- Result Types
- Type Conversion
- Validation
- OGNL
- Internationalization
- Webflow
- 3rd Party Integration
The tutorial TOC/flow could come from whatever Patrick's example app already has.