Abstract 'Resource loading with Weblets'

Component libraries for web application frameworks often need to provide resource files along with implementation classes. For example, JavaServer Faces Renderers often need JavaScript, CSS and image resources.

Although dropping in an implementation JAR does make these components libraries available, the resource files must be extracted into the web application root. This can easily lead to inconsistency problems between implementation code and resource files.

Weblets aims to solve this problem, without placing undue burden on the application developer. Although JavaServer Faces is mentioned as an explicit example, Weblets aims to solve the general problem in a non-Faces-specific way, and then provide an integration with Faces.

Date and Time

JavaPolis Quickies

Speaker

• Jonas Jacobi

Related Links

• Weblets Open Source Project
• Article about Weblets in JDJ