Comments on: Using the Woodstock Sortable Table

By: Morten Egelund Rasmussen

Morten Egelund Rasmussen — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:00:36 +0000

Got the same problem that Kenneth Miles describes above: The drop down boxes just won’t work with XHTML in Mozilla. It seems to work just fine in Internet Explorer… — And yes: it drives me absolutely crazy.

You can get the calendar to work if you use Woodstock 4.0-200702221013 (got it from Ken Paulsen). Dunno if you can download a similar version from the Woodstock page.

Nice article btw.

By: Kenenth Miles

Kenenth Miles — Thu, 03 May 2007 05:18:12 +0000

I have been having problems rendering woodstock compoenents on the browser because the page is rendered as XHTML, as the facelets specification requires. Dojo uses functions to write to the XHTML DOM that are not supported under firefox (maybe IE also, i have not tested). Because of this incompatability the woodstock calendar components, and the Jump down feature on the Drop down boxes does not work. Does anyone else seem to have that problem?

I had this problem a few months ago and hadn’t looked at it since.

By: jason

jason — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:04:31 +0000

Rainer,

Too bad you’re skipping Facelets. It’s pretty nice, but it *will* be nice to see it supported in JSFTemplating, though for some of those component libs, you may still see the same type of problems in terms of ViewHandler support. Woodstock works flawlessly under JSFTemplating out of the box, though.

By: jason

jason — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:52:39 +0000

al80 and Thai,

I have not tried using a4j with the WS components. If I get some time, I’ll try to see if I can make them live together.

By: jason

jason — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:51:27 +0000

reda,

I don’t use NetBeans, so I’m not sure what to tell you on that. What, exactly, do you mean by “conflicts with jsf1.2″?

By: rainwebs

rainwebs — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:45:19 +0000

Although, we got the table stuff working we got tweaks with the tree. Our tests showed that Facelets create these. We’ll definitely skip Facelets (after tweaks with Trinidad, Tomahawk and Woodstock :sad::sad:) and will have a look at jsftemplating. Cool that you help to get the “easier syntax” from Facelets into jsftemplating

By: reda

reda — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:33:47 +0000

hi,
very interesting article,
please i have a lot of problem to configure woodstock with facelets (conflits with jsf1.2)
i use netbeans that integrate facelets can you advice me how to do it.(integration witch jar use)
would you submit me your project.
thanks at all.

By: Thai Dang Vu

Thai Dang Vu — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:39:40 +0000

I have the same question with al80. The reason I look at Woodstock is that RichFaces doesn’t have a file upload component and its data table is unsortable.

By: Rainer Eschen

Rainer Eschen — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:18:36 +0000

Your post helped a lot. Some experiences with Woodstock and Facelets we made:

http://blog.rainer.eschen.name/2007/04/01/when-theres-bad-smell-in-your-jsf-tag-soup-due-to-facelets/

By: jason

jason — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:12:55 +0000

Kenneth, thanks for that note. I’ve actually just run into that issue myself. I’ll turn off the option and see if that helps.

By: Kenenth Miles

Kenenth Miles — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:29:33 +0000

If com.sun.faces.verifyObjects is enabled when deploying a woodstock application it throws a long list of ClassCastExceptions regarding ValueBindingSortCriteria, ValueBindingFilterCriteria, ValueExpresionFilterCriteria, VaulueExpressionSortCriteria. I’am new to JSF and faclets so I’m not to sure if this is a bug in Facelets, JSF, or the Woodstock components.

Might be best to disable the VerifyObjects Option while developing Faclets pages with woodstock support, as i cannot find the source of the problem.

By: al80

al80 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:40:04 +0000

I see that Woodstack depends on DynaFaces library, I think because the AJAX support is built upon it.
That’s nice, but I am not sure if DynaFaces and Ajax4JSF can live together. In my application I am using Ajax4JSF, so I am not sure, now, if I can use the Woodstock components painless in the future.

Have anyone tried this combination?

By: Mitch Blevins

Mitch Blevins — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:27:17 +0000

Glad to see that you have time to write novella-length blog entries. I was afraid that maybe you were being overworked, but now I see there is plenty in reserve…

By: Ken Paulsen

Ken Paulsen — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:02:33 +0000

Thanks for writing so much detail in all these steps. I now have another one of your blogs to bookmark! (The other is your component writing checklist.) Good work!