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20021211 Wednesday December 11, 2002

The TVC Framework Here's an interesting new extension for Struts:

The TVC Framework uses the Struts framework to create HTML tables with functionality that includes paging, sorting, filtering of data, and data validation.

This joins the ranks of Ed's <display:*> tag library and Yuriy's html table tag library. I've always like the display tag library as it's easy to setup and use - just pass it an ArrayList of beans and you're off! The TVC Framework seems to offer some cool functionality, but you have to pay $995 for the good stuff :(. Of course, if you're trying to code similar functionality on your own, you'd probably save your self some money if you bought it. Posted in Java at Dec 11 2002, 04:20:36 AM MST 3 Comments

Comments:

This sure looks like a lot of javascript. This would be great for an intranet application but I sure wouldn’t suggest a company use it for their public site.

Posted by Gary VanMatre on December 11, 2002 at 09:12 AM MST #

Just curious - what's wrong with Javascript? Personally, I love the stuff ;-)

Posted by Matt Raible on December 11, 2002 at 09:18 AM MST #

Don’t get me wrong. I think javascript is great. I think that with javascript you can deliver a better user experience to a target browser. It’s too bad that there are different flavors of javascript. The result is that your site only speaks to users that have the specific browser that your script will support. This may seem to be a mute point when 90% of the community is using IE. .However, for a state agency that is required to cater to the public and also follow accessibility guidelines, the use of javascript becomes a liability.

Posted by Gary VanMatre on December 12, 2002 at 03:07 AM MST #

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