Facing new challenges everyday

There are some situations where we need know the browser name to perform some changes on page code, the java code below defines a EL function to help on retrieve the browser name.

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Yesterday I wrote a small set of EL functions to use with spring security, now I can get easy access to spring security roles and authentication info as well.

Here’s an example of how bodyguard can be used in your facelets code:

You can download the bodyguard by clicking here and sources here.

In the last week I had several issues during the development of a jsf application that could be solved by creating few custom Facelets EL functions, let’s take a look on which scenarios Facelets EL functions helped me.

1. Simple loop over a range of numbers

JSF has a lot of components that can be used to iterate over a model and repeat its own child components several times, some of them are Tomahawk’s dataList and Richfaces repeat.

But in all of these components I couldn’t find a way to do a simple iteration on a range of numbers, like repeat all child components starting from 1 and stopping at n number of times.

Maybe you will say: “What about c:forEach? It can do this kind of iteration!”, oh yes, it can, and I tried to use it but it crashes when I pass EL expressions to both begin and end attributes, it only accepts hardcoded values.
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Sometimes I remeber to visit TSS site to check some news about Java world, one of the threads that catch my attention was the article about use Raven to build Java projects, Raven allows to use your DSLs to write build files on top of Java language, with these DSLs you can do much more than any other build system like Ant but with less code.

You can define your own DSL to solve a specific problem, Raven uses a DSL to write builds scripts, but you can use DSLs to generate XML content, RSS content, HTML pages, SQL statements, create swing applications and to perform unit conversions.

But what about Gracelets? What’s it for?

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Parece que sim, eu e meu colega aqui da empresa conseguimos definir um conjunto de classes e componentes que está possibilitando o desenvolvimento de frontends de pesquisa muito rapidamente, estou adorando essa experiência, Facelets tem se demostrando uma solução de muita importância para nós.
A aplicação que estamos desenvolvendo no momento servirá de referência para toda a empresa.