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Re: calendar component

From: Senthil Chidambaram <cchidamb_at_sun.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:54:06 -0700

Ken,
Sure, I'll try to schedule up a meeting with him on Monday. I'll post
the meeting details in this alias.

thx
Senthil

Ken Paulsen wrote:

>
> Senthil,
>
> I think we have more questions than answers, can you plan on talking
> to Sankara to find out exactly what should be supported / is required
> from the GUI? If he has some example use cases, that would be great.
> Let me know if you'd like me to join the conversation.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
>
>
> Senthil Chidambaram wrote:
>
>> I was fixing a bug on this screen that's when I found out the problem
>> on the calendar component. I believe this screen was implemented by
>> Nitya to begin with, in consultation with Sankara in IEC. I can check
>> with Anissa, and see whether we've to redo this screen to support
>> unknown event types, and I want Sankara to confirm whether unknown
>> types are supported. I'm cutting, and pasting the two lines from
>> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/javaee5/selfmanagement/selfmanagementhome.html
>>
>>
>> "An event triggers the action to be executed. A set of events are
>> provided by default with the glassfish and user could extend the
>> events by using JMX Notification mechanism".
>>
>> The above line indicates to me that users could extend events. If
>> we've to redo this screen to support unknown event typest, it's not
>> difficult to do. We've to provide a properties table for users to add
>> properties as name/value pairs.
>>
>> thx
>> Senthil
>>
>> Bill Shannon wrote:
>>
>>> Senthil Chidambaram wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bill Shannon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Senthil Chidambaram wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The six supported event types by GF can be extended. This is what
>>>>>> the document says, and that's how GUI is implemented. Sankara has
>>>>>> to confirm this.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If the DTD only allows the six types, how can I add a new type?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You can't add a new type in the current screen flow. GUI is
>>>> implemented for the six supported types.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> First you say I can add a new type and then you say I can't.
>>> No wonder I'm confused!!! :-)
>>>
>>> Did you implement the GUI assuming there would never be any other
>>> event types?
>>>
>>> Or do you plan to completely redo the GUI in the future to support an
>>> open ended set of event types?
>>>
>>> Was it faster or easier to implement a GUI for six built-in types than
>>> to implement a GUI for an extensible set of types?
>>>
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