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HOW TO CHOOSE A WEB
FRAMEWORK
…and be surprised
Jose María Arranz Santamaría Agosto 2010
Jose María Arranz August 2010
... and be surprisedHOW TO CHOOSE A JAVA WEB FRAMEWORK
Choosing the appropriate web framework which fits your requirements…
…and needs, conveniences, desires, tastes…
…is not an easy task
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THE PROBLEM OF CHOOSING
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These slides propose and advocate some criteria to pick the right framework– Advocating for freedom of choice,
freedom of design, robustness, security…
– Discarding options (that is, frameworks)
Maybe you do not agree with everyone– I must try… :)
THE PROBLEM OF CHOOSING
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Frameworks, Frameworks, Frameworks!!
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Many of them are very similar
Some strong criteria are very important
Most of frameworks can be classified into groups
CALM DOWN! you will see, THERE ARE NOT VERY MANY!
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The Java platform is the most robust, most secure, speediest and richest for web development
CRITERION: JVM in server
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Flash/Flex (and other RIA plugins…)– Will be replaced by HTML 5 in a
short future
– HTML/CSS/JS is more flexible and open than Flash/Flex
– Data applications do not need to be so “baroque”
– SEO compatibility is not easy
CRITERION: Pure Web Client
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Coding in JavaScript– Unmanageable when code grows
• Not typed, not compiled, not true OOP
• Hard to organize
• Hard to debug and test
• Tends to generated cryptic code
– Hard to divide the work to do• Hard to divide the code in archives
– Slooow
– Impossible for Single Page Interface apps.
CRITERION: “Client-Centric”??
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Coding in JavaScriptDo you really want to code this way?
CRITERION: “Client-Centric”?? (cont.)
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Coding in JavaScript: the myth of Rich Interface Application = JS LibraryRIA = beautiful web, Single Page Interface, with
movements and opacity changes
– Beautiful Web• Good design of HTML, CSS, images (nothing to do with JS)
– Single Page Interface• Partial changes of the page (client-centric is not implied)
– Movements and opacity changes• Funny games with style attributes and timers
• The only case a JS library is very useful
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CRITERION: “Client-Centric”?? (cont.)
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Coding in JavaScriptNO THANKS!!
CRITERION: “Client-Centric”?? (cont.)
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GWT– Allows coding JS in Java
– GWT compiles Java code as JavaScript sent to the client
– Visual logic (and some business logic) is executed only in client
– Solves the problem of coding in JS
– BUT MORE PROBLEMS REMAIN…
CRITERION: “Client-Centric”?? (cont.)
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Visual Design is programmatic or with specific IDEs – Bye web designers
Components “black-boxed”– Almost only CSS customization
Cryptic generated JS– Only debugging in Java
CRITERION: “Client-Centric”?? (cont.)
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Paranoid server– No confidence with client (and everything is there)
– Duplicity of checking/validations
Client-server custom communication data bridges (GWT-RPC)
Duplicity of data management in client and server
SOFEA: utopian approach– Impossible sending SQL from browser
– Eternal fight about what is on each side
CRITERION: “Client-Centric”?? (cont.)
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?
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In “server-centric” business logic and visual logic are executed in server– The server generates markup and/or JavaScript
• No need of JavaScript programming
– Data and visual state are together
– Safer
– Better options for freedom of web design (templates)
– Easier Search Engine Optimization compatibility
– Rule: life in server is more comfortable
CRITERION: “Server-Centric”
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Client-
Centric
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LET’S LOOK BACK
JVM in server
Pure Web Client
Server-Centric
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Frameworks, Frameworks, Frameworks!!
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Initially are very productive
But they become a problem when – The source code grows (1000 classes?)
– Several persons in the same code
– IDEs cannot help very much
Slooowhttp://www.codecommit.com/blog/java/groovys-performance-is-not-subjective
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CRITERION: Dynamic Language??
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Can you live without a true “Find Usages” of NetBeans?
Can you live without refactoring tools?
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CRITERION: Dynamic Language?? (cont.)
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The compiler gives us robust and speeder code– Compiler is your friend
Tools like “Find Usages” and “Refactor” (NetBeans) – Allow us to manage thousand of
classes
– Developer knows how changes affect to any part of the code
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CRITERION: Java Lenguage
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In Single Page Interface (SPI) a web site/application runs into the same page (no reload)– By using AJAX (or similar) we get new markup
or JavaScript for partial updates
Event based programming and only partial changes designed and coded– The same as desktop applications
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CRITERION: Single Page Interface
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No more unexpected Back/Forward/Reload and double form-submitting– No more “post-redirect”
– Back/Forward buttons of browser can optionally work in SPI and remain SPI and deterministic
No more unexpected caching (GET)
No more unexpected “form autofill”– Changing values provided by the server on page load
No more stupid full page rendering when anything is changed– Avoiding annoying blinking and scrolling
– Increased performance
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CRITERION: Single Page Interface (cont.)
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No more includes into includes into includes– Templates ONLY containing initial page or page fragments
– More tolerance to visual changes
No more direct access to internal pages
No more problems when the same user opens two pages– Pages of a SPI application DO NOT share state by default
– Session is NO longer the place to save temporal data
No more problems with modal windows– Browsers do not like them (hack)
– In SPI you can simulate modal windows
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CRITERION: Single Page Interface (cont.)
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End users increased productivity!– Example: showed errors while introducing data
FACT: no one desktop application is paged (multi-frame)– No, a “wizard” is a single modal window, the same
“frame” (=page) is kept
The SPI concept is NOT NEWhttp://devedge-temp.mozilla.org/viewsource/2003/inner-browsing/index_en.html
SPI is much more than “a bit of AJAX”– If the web framework is not SPI oriented the page must change to
load new AJAX based components
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CRITERION: Single Page Interface (cont.)
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Click
“Standard” < v2.0
(no AJAX)
Another reason to discard both again
CRITERION: Single Page Interface (cont.)
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LET’S LOOK BACK
JVM in server
Pure Web Client
Server-Centric
Java Language
Single Page Interface
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Frameworks, Frameworks, Frameworks!!
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Tools like EclipseRAP and AjaxSwing are interesting for quickly porting desktop applications to web – The result is a “forced” web application
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CRITERION: Not a forced web
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Allows division by role between developers and web designers– Two clear roles: visual design, logic programming
(visual and business logic)
– Reusing of visual design (visual patterns)
– Reusing of visual logic => OOP
• Can be very independent of concrete visual design
Absolute control of layout when “markup is alive”
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CRITERION: Templates based on plain HTML with no logic
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JSF flavours…. NO!
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CRITERION: Templates based on plain HTML with no logic (cont.)
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JSF flavours…. NO!– Black-boxed components
• Visual aesthetic is imposed
• Hard to change, “is what you get”
– Mixed visual design and logic (lots of Java bindings and EL expressions)
• Too much Java Reflection, security risk
– Struts security hole (in ONGL):
http://struts.apache.org/2.2.1/docs/s2-005.html
– Spring security hole:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/7526
– Specific visual editors needed (= FAILURE)
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CRITERION: Templates based on plain HTML with no logic (cont.)
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ZK? …. NEITHER!– Similar to JSF
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CRITERION: Templates based on plain HTML with no logic (cont.)
“I don't think UI Designer would have patient to learn how to
polish his web site in ZUL file, they want CSS and HTML”http://stackoverflow.com/questions/327328/any-real-world-experience-of-the-zk-ajax-
framework
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Vaadin? NO TEMPLATING!– Visual design fully programmatic!
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CRITERION: Templates based on plain HTML with no logic (cont.)
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Wicket to the rescue?– “Wicket does not mix markup with Java code
and adds no special syntax to your markup files” http://wicket.apache.org/meet/features.html
– Let’s see AJAX “Tree and TreeTable” ex.• Where is the tree markup? => Black Box!
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CRITERION: Templates based on plain HTML with no logic (cont.)
(again)
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LET’S LOOK BACK
JVM in server
Pure Web Client
Server-Centric
Java Language
Single Page Interface
Not a forced web
Templates based on plain HTML with no logic
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Frameworks, Frameworks, Frameworks!!
Click
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REMOVING ALL DISCARDED
FRAMEWORKS
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Frameworks, Frameworks, Frameworks!!
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NO ONE??!!
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ANOTHER CHANCE TO JSF (with AJAX), ZK and Vaadin
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In a “push” template the contained markup is the visual pattern managed by Java code pushing data to the template (this is not executable)– Java code has complete control of the lifecycle of
instances, begin and end of transactions
– Promotes visual reusing and OOP
– IoC/DI is not imposed (optional)
Example: Wicket load phase (no AJAX)– But Wicket is fully discarded…
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CRITERION: “Push” Templates
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JSF flavours and ZK– Executable (pull) templates
– Java objects controlled by template
Vaadin– Template? What is a template?
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CRITERION: “Push” Templates (cont)
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REMOVING ALL DISCARDED
FRAMEWORKS
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NO ONE??!!
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ANOTHER CHANCE TO JSF (with AJAX), ZK and Vaadin
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Answer to the “fine but can it do…?”
JavaScript minimum or nothing
New markup defined as markup (sort of template)– Not as JavaScript
– We can decide what elements send events
– Event processing in server can insert/modify/remove our markup
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CRITERION: Easy Creation of Custom AJAX Components
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JSF pre 2.0– Tons of “hacks”
– Markup management with client JavaScripthttps://bpcatalog.dev.java.net/ajax/textfield-jsf/design.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/tutorial-jsp-140089.html
http://media.techtarget.com/tss/static/articles/content/JSFReference/JSFReferenceCH11.pdf
JSF post 2.0– Simplified creation of “composite” components…
WOW a new sort of include was invented!
– AJAX calls standardized. WOW!
– The same annoying JavaScripthttp://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jsf2fu-0410/index.html
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CRITERION: Easy Creation of Custom AJAX Components (cont.)
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ZK– There is some example beyond adding
AJAX listeners to markup on load time?
– New markup management again with JavaScript in client
http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/Component_Development_Tutorial
http://www.zkoss.org/doc/compdevguide
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CRITERION: Easy Creation of Custom AJAX Components (cont.)
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Vaadin– According the manual is not an easy task. The
reference manual is sincere:
• “Creation of new widgets involves a number of rather intricate tasks”
http://vaadin.com/book/-/page/gwt.html
– A new GWT component must be created, another one for server, code for client/server coordination and data communication, several registries
– Positive: fortunately management of new markup is Java based (GWT) but pure programmatic (bye web designers)
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CRITERION: Easy Creation of Custom AJAX Components (cont.)
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LET’S LOOK BACK
JVM in server
Pure Web Client
Server-Centric
Java Language
Single Page Interface
Not a forced web
Templates based on plain HTML with no logic
“Push” Templates
Easy Creation of Custom AJAX Components
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Frameworks, Frameworks, Frameworks!!
Click
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REMOVING ALL DISCARDED
FRAMEWORKS
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NO ONE??!!
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ANOTHER CHANCE TO JSF (with AJAX), ZK and Vaadin
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The framework should provide an easy API and development style
Providing in a short period of time, the necessary skills to develop Single Page Interface applications
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CRITERION: Not Steep Learning Curve
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All frameworks compete with the longest and rich list of components– Are they hiding that custom component
development is a very cumbersome task?
A custom tag or custom API is needed for a simple button or text box– Hundreds of custom tags including the basics
– Web knowledge thrown away
Beyond already made components there is no very much hope (complex task)
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CRITERION: Not Steep Learning Curve (cont.)
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REMOVING ALL DISCARDED
FRAMEWORKS
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NO ONE??!!
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ANOTHER CHANCE TO JSF (with AJAX), ZK and Vaadin
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XML based configuration and declarative programming:– Hard to reuse, no very much OOP
– Friend of tools, usually become foe for developers
– Hard to debug, error detection on runtime
– Rigid relative to the imperative alternative
– Fight against rigidity with tons of custom elements and attributes (trying to cope with any casuistic)
– Usually enormous archives (hard to work with)
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CRITERION: Free of XML and declarative programming
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JSF and ZK– Full of XMLs for configuration and
custom tags (a kind of declarative programming)
Vaadin– Is not free of XML based registries
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CRITERION: Free of XML and declarative programming
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NO ONE??!!
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ANOTHER CHANCE TO JSF (with AJAX), ZK and Vaadin
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Is there anybody out there?There is more life beyond iPhone and Android
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CRITERION: Single Page Interface in many mobile browsers
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This will be the last one!!
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The division between a web application and web site is blur today– FaceBook, Twitter (both SPI) are they sites or apps?
Notwithstanding be indexed by web crawlers is absolutely necessary (SEO compatible) – Avoiding site duplication for SEO
This implies any SPI state should be bookmarkable and in the same time generated with markup
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CRITERION: SPI SEO compatible
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SPI SEO compatible WHAT?
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CRITERION: SPI SEO compatible
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LET’S LOOK BACK
JVM in server
Pure Web Client
Server-Centric
Java Language
Single Page Interface
Not a forced web
Templates based on plain HTML with no logic
“Push” Templates
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Easy Creation of Custom AJAX Components
Not Steep Learning Curve
Free of XML and declarative programming
SPI in many mobile browsers
SPI SEO compatible
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Frameworks, Frameworks, Frameworks!!
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NO ONE??!!
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REALLY??!!
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NO, not trueMISSING ONE!!!
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Is ItsNat really compliant with all previous
criterions?
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ItsNat is coded with Java in server– Other JVM languages are not excluded for
development ItsNat applications
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CRITERION: Pure Web Client
CRITERION: JVM in server / Java Language
100% web technology– Optional SVG applet based on Batik
– SVGWeb support for SVG in IE (v6-v8)
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In ItsNat user JavaScript code is not needed– In spite of developers can easily inject
custom JavaScript from server
– In spite of custom JS code and JS libraries can fit together with ItsNat
• Generated markup is CLEAN of ItsNat artifacts (id and onXXX attributes not used by ItsNat)
• Markup layout is absolutely controlled by developers, jQuery /Dojo can play with styleattributes for visual effects (movements, opacity)
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CRITERION: Server-Centric
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ItsNat strongly supports the SPI paradigm
But nothing prevents you of page navigation…– There is a utility called “Referrers”
– Form auto-fill of browsers is automatically canceled (load time) to ensure all data shown are given by the server
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CRITERION: Single Page Interface
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Developers have absolute control of layout including in SPI
No aesthetic is imposed, no pixel based desktop simulation
Swing is optionally used only because its “data/selection models” (view independent)
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CRITERION: Not a forced web
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Templates are normal plain HTML files, no custom tags, no expression languages, no Java bindings– Fully suitable for web designers and pure
HTML/XHTML WYSIWYG tools
– New HTML fragments to be inserted into the page with AJAX are plain XHTML/HTML too
Visual logic is executed using Java W3C DOM APIs in the server (including events)– Any change performed to the DOM in server is
replicated to the client (custom JavaScript is generated and sent to the client)
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CRITERION: Templates based on plain HTML with no logic
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Event listeners are Java W3C DOM Event listeners registered in server– Receiving W3C DOM Events
ItsNat SIMULATES A JAVA W3C BROWSER IN THE SERVER– The client page is a clone of server
– This is not “new”, actually ALL of server-centric frameworks DO the same (JSF, ZK, Vaadinbrowser) by using techniques…
VERY ARTIFICIAL AND RIGID!!
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CRITERION: Templates based on plain HTML with no logic (cont.)
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CRITERION: Templates based on plain HTML with no logic (cont.)
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The page (client and server) can be partially changed with new plain HTML markup
Three ways to add new markup to a page in SPI1. Markup Fragment
2. String containing markup converted to DOM through ItsNatDocument.toDOM(String)
3. Creating elements through W3C DOM Java API
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CRITERION: Templates based on plain HTML with no logic (cont.)
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1. Markup Fragment Is a type of template, only the content in <body> is loaded and can be inserted by DOM API in server
http://www.innowhere.com:8080/itsnat/feashow_servlet?itsnat_doc_name=feashow.main&feature=feashow.core.domutils.markupFragments.ex
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CRITERION: Templates based on plain HTML with no logic (cont.)
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2. String containing markup converted to W3C Java DOM by ItsNatDocument.toDOM(String)
http://www.innowhere.com:8080/itsnat/feashow_servlet?itsnat_doc_name=feashow.main&feature=feashow.core.domutils.toDOM.ex
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CRITERION: Templates based on plain HTML with no logic (cont.)
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3. Through W3C DOM Java API
http://www.innowhere.com:8080/itsnat/feashow_servlet?itsnat_doc_name=feashow.main&feature=feashow.core.man.htmlExampleInManual.ex
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CRITERION: Templates based on plain HTML with no logic (cont.)
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Because templates are plain HTML and can be freely modified…– Because MARKUP IS ALIVE as DOM
…ItsNat easily allows to convert any paged web site or app web to Single Page Interface
– Clone of ElCorteIngles.es as SPI: http://www.innowhere.com:8080/insites/
– Clone of an ExtJS application: http://www.innowhere.com:8080/inexperiments/inexpservlet?itsnat_doc_name=extjsexample
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CRITERION: Templates based on plain HTML with no logic (cont.)
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ItsNat templates are not executable, view logic is fully based on Java– Java logic manages the template markup and pushes
(injects) data to the template
ItsNat provides the template as DOM to Java code on load time– Java code absolutely controls object instances,
transaction demarcation and view modification in any order
– Nothing prevents of using IoC/DI frameworks, they are not imposed
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CRITERION: “Push” Templates
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CRITERION: “Push” Templates
Called per
page load
Document
lifecycle is the
same as the
client page
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Components are the typical form of visual layout, visual code and associated events
In ItsNat components are NOT needed because any HTML element is a “component”– Any element can receive events
– Can contain other elements (=components)
– Can change its data (text nodes) and appearance(CSS, formatting nodes)
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CRITERION: Easy Creation of Custom AJAX Components
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Do we need “components” for reusing in ItsNat? NO!!– A markup fragment (or string
converted toDOM() o Java DOM code) and a Java class with DOM management and event listeners => can be reused without some kind of component registration
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CRITERION: Easy Creation of Custom AJAX Components (cont.)
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Anyway ItsNat provides a component system and some components– Component = “binding of a data model, a selection
model (usually Swing), a pluggable layout and some registered event listeners”
– Text boxes, lists, tables, trees …
– Layout pluggable (pattern based): NO “black box”
And a mechanism for new components– Implementing ItsNatComponent
– And registering (with code) a CreateItsNatComponentListener
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CRITERION: Easy Creation of Custom AJAX Components (cont.)
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Component creation is so easy like binding a plain HTML pattern…– Defined as markup fragment, toDOM o Java
DOM code• The HTML pattern (layout) can be defined outside the
component and be plugged on component creation
with a data (and selection) model…
and predefined actions (Java) and DOM (AJAX) events
http://www.innowhere.com:8080/itsnat/feashow_servlet?itsnat_doc_name=feashow.main&feature=feashow.comp.other.customComponent.ex
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CRITERION: Easy Creation of Custom AJAX Components (cont.)
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ItsNat has two levels:1. Core
2. Components
The Core level is basically DHTML in the server– Java W3C DOM Core/HTML APIs
– Java W3C DOM Events
– Enough to create sophisticated SPI applications
Components are optional– Form components very useful (text box, select…)
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CRITERION: Not Steep Learning Curve
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ItsNat configuration is fully based on code– Provides maximum freedom, flexibility and reusing =>
OOP and automatic adaptation to environment
100% XML and declarative programming free
Nothing prevent of building declarative layers on top– Config. and registries based on XML, custom tags…
– Configuration based on DI frameworks (Spring, Guice)
– ItsNat is consciously a low/middle level framework
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CRITERION: Free of XML and declarative programming
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Desktop Browsers– Adobe AIR HTML Component, Arora, Google Chrome, FireFox 1+, Internet
Explorer v6,7,8, Internet Explorer v9, Moblin 2.0, Opera 9+, QtWebKit (Qt 4.4), Safari 3+.
Mobile Browsers– Android 1.0+, BlackBerry JDE 4.6+ (Flip, Bold, Storm etc), Bolt, Fennec 1.0a1
(a.k.a FireFox Mobile), Pocket IE 6 (Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1), IE Mobile 6 (since Windows Mobile 6.1.4), iPhone/iPod Touch 2.0+, Iris 1.0.8+, Minimo 0.2, Motorola Symphony 1.1, NetFront 3.4+, Opera Mini 4.x, Opera Mobile 8.6x (WinMob and UIQ), 9.5, 9.7 and 10, S60WebKit (since S60 3rd), S40WebKit (since S40 6th), Palm Pre webOS, QtWebKit of Qt for Embedded Linux (Qt v4.4) and Windows CE, SkyFire 1.0 and UCWEB (Java and WinMob).
SVG Plugins – Adobe SVG Viewer v3 and v6 beta, Renesis Player v1.1.1, Savarese Ssrc SVG
(adds XUL to MSIE too), SVGWeb, and Batik as applet.
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CRITERION: SPI in many mobile browsers
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Pocket IE support of Windows Mobile 6.0 y 6.1 is INCREDIBLE– In later versions
(>= 6.1.4) IE Mobile is much better
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CRITERION: SPI in many mobile browsers (cont.)
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ItsNat has a render mode on page load called “Fast Load”– In this mode any change made to the initial
template DOM when the page is loading, do not generate JavaScript
– Final DOM tree is rendered as markup
The same Java DOM code can generate markup (load phase) or JavaScript (events)
– ElCorteIngles.es as SPI SEO compatible: http://www.innowhere.com:8080/insites/
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CRITERION: SPI SEO compatible
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ItsNat has many more characteristics some of them are unique
Pure SVG and embedded SVG in XHTML/HTML, remote control of other users, server-sent events, integrated functional testing, modal layers, iframe auto-binding in server, extreme mashups, remote templates, Comet, client JavaScript integration…
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EPILOGUE
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Project Homehttp://www.itsnat.org
Online Demohttp://www.innowhere.com:8080/itsnat/
The Single Page Interface Manifestohttp://itsnat.sourceforge.net/php/spim/spi_manifesto_en.php
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