Enabling Third-party Components in Creator 2
Monday Feb 06, 2006
I know that Creator users want more components to use in their apps. So what have I been up to lately? I've been trying to help component developers by documenting how to add third-party components to Creator 2. So the information I've written up is not directed at the general Creator user because it assumes a moderate amount of knowledge about JavaServer Faces (JSF) and general Java programming. I've handed off my latest draft to our docs group and they plan to write it up as an article. So it's hot off the presses. Let me know if you find problems with it.
One of the things I've looked at recently was to get some MyFaces components to work in Creator. For more of the complex components that users have been asking for, it was more difficult than expected. The main reason is that Creator tries to present an easy-to-use drag and drop UI for JSF components and the tradeoff is that it does not accept any generic JSF component -- or at least right now it doesn't. Instead, the components currently need to follow a set of guidelines which are referenced in the article I wrote above.
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