Re: [e4-dev] Now's the time to figure out what we need in e4

["Jo Grant" <jo_grant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Are you sure that this is really more consistent
? Dont forget: Wizards for
> instance are a JFace-specific kind of thing and i always thought the
> application model itself should be independent of SWT, JFace. Or do
you
> think of a more abstract way of integration and if yes how this could
look
> like?

If the model had extended to Wizards
in e4, that would have saved another headache in the product we are just
releasing. (I still vote for help as #1!)
The product is the deployment tool for
our J2EE application. I wanted a wizard where the first page asked how
many database servers, reporting servers, and application servers are in
the deployment. And then I wanted one page for each server requested. I
could find no way of doing this with the JFace provided Wizard and ended
up having to do my own one.
I think that if we had a model based
wizard, then I probably could have altered the model in mid-course, and
have the UI adapt to that. I could have rendered the UI I wished without
having to develop it all myself.

I'm not going to speak to consistency,
or abstract appropriateness. But I just wanted to chime in with a good
practical example of how having this would have made it easier to use e4
in production.

Cheers,

Jo

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