<h1>GlassFish v3 User Task Analysis for jMaki</h1>

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Scope

To identify the tasks that an application developer must perform to develop and deploy a typical jMaki application. An application developer primarily uses widgets rather than develops widgets.

Related Information

• The jMaki project

List of Tasks

{1} = Priority 1: Must document for V3
{2} = Priority 2: Might document for V3
{3} = Priority 3: Will defer to later or get a volunteer to document it

• Download jMaki{1}
• Install jMaki{1}
• Integrating jMaki with my framework of choice {2}
  • Subtasks?
• Adding jMaki to a NetBeans project{1}
• Adding jMaki to an Eclipse project {3}
• Updating jMaki pallette in Netbeans {2}
• Creating pages with JSP, JSF, PHP, JRuby {1}
• AddIng an existing widget to a page{1}
  • Selecting a widget
  • Add a tag
  • Add a library
  • Add library dependencies
  • By using NetBeans or Eclipse these three things happen automatically
• Initialize a widget {1}
  • Subtasks?
• Manage widget data{1}
  • Through value attributes {1}
    • Through reference to a JavaScript variable
    • Binding to JavaBean component
  • Through service attributes {1}
  • Selecting the right widget to represent your data {1}
  • Setting data using Ajax {1}
    • Subtasks?
  • Formatting data using JSON {1}
    • Subtasks?
  • Processing form data {2}
    • Adding rows
    • Deleting rows
    • Selecting rows

Enabling widgets to communicate with each other {1}

• • Using actions (declarative events) to allow widgets to communicate {1}
  • Using the getWidget function to get a handle on a widget instance. {1}
  • Using pub/sub (programmatic events) to get widgets to communicate {1}
    • Subtasks?

• Enabling widgets to communicate with the server{1}
  • Making XMLHttpRequest calls with the doAjax function{1}
    • Subtasks?
  • Using glue code and the subscribe function to get and set data on a widget (other common use cases for subscribe function and glue code?) {1}
    • Subtasks?
  • Giving different publish events to widgets {1}
    • Subtasks?

• Accessing external services through XML/HTTP proxy{1}
  • Accessing a service through the xhp property {1}
    • Subtasks?
  • Accessing an rss feed {1}
  • Accessing an atom feed {2}
  • Using a stylesheet to convert incoming data to the proper format {2}
    • Subtasks?
  • Using doAjax to access standard service (such as yahoo geocoder){1}
    • Subtasks?
  • Registering your own service {2}
    • Subtasks?
  • Accessing your own service. {2}
    • Subtasks?
  • Updating proxy files {2}

• Customizing a widget {1}
  • Styling a widget {1}
  • Applying versioning to a widget {2}
  • Getting a handle on a widget {1}
  • Configuring a widget {2}
  • Creating a widget {3}
    • Subtasks?
  • Enabling a widget to work with a service {1}
    • Subtasks?
  • Wrapping a widget {2}
    • Subtasks?
  • Putting a widget in a widget {1}
    • Subtasks?

• Deployment
  • Switching deployment defaults {2}
    • Subtasks?

Associated Concepts

• Pagination
• Extend jMaki
• Minimum requirements for a jMaki widget
• Widget composition
• Event types
• Outbound events vs inbound events (commands)
• Topics
• Publish and Subscribe
• Package widget (don't know what this means)