Re: Introducing trails-conversations

Oh forgot to mention, if anybody wants to take a whack at integrating session-per-conversation (JPA/Hibernate session that is) be my guest, I'll support the goal anyway I can. Naively, I think it shouldn't be too hard. Eventually I'll get to it myself if there are no takers.

Kalle

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Kalle Korhonen <kalle.o.korhonen@...> wrote:

I just added a new module trails-conversations in the trunk as an implementation of conversations-within-page concept for Tapestry 5. I've pushed out the very first 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT of the library to Codehaus' snapshot repository (http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org/org/trailsframework/). The library is independent from the rest of Trails modules. I also created a Wiki page to start documenting the feature and the usage of it (http://trails.codehaus.org/Conversations+in+Trails). The implementation is rudimentary but some people had expressed interest in testing it out so there you have it. Any interface may still change based on user comments and my own usage experiences, which is why I don't want to advertise it too publicly (read on tapestry mailing list) yet. There's an optional ajax-based ConversationModerator component that is not fully functional and documented even less than the rest of it. One of the issues I'd like feedback on is what should happen when a conversation expires or is about to expire. ConversationModerator could display warning messages or just provide hooks to call your own Javascript handlers. All discussion regarding the library will continue on Trails mailing lists - as a general rule of thumb I'll reply to the user list even if you email me privately. I've also created trails-conversation component in Trails JIRA so you may already open issues against the current implementation.

Kalle