Perforce JViews TGO Sample: JViews TGO Faces component in a Facelets and Trinidad Context

Description

This sample shows how to use the JViews JavaServer Faces components in a Facelets or Trinidad context.

Installing the Thin-Client Sample

The sample contains a WAR file (Web Archive) that allows you to easily install the sample on any server that supports the Servlet API 2.1 or later. For your convenience, the WAR will be copied to the Tomcat web server that is supplied with the Perforce JViews installation when you start the server using the supplied scripts. Tomcat is the official reference implementation of the Servlet and JSP specifications. If you are already using an up-to-date Web or application server, there is a good chance that it already has everything you need. The sample can also be deployed to WebSphere Application Server (WAS).

Running the Sample Using Tomcat

If you intend to use the Tomcat Web server provided with this installation, follow these instructions to start the server: Running the Server-Side Samples. The scripts to start the server can be found in the tools/tomcat-facelets directory.
Note: if you are running on Windows then you will find menu items in the Windows "start" menu to start and stop the Tomcat server.

Once the server is running, you can see the sample by opening the following page:

• Perforce JViews TGO Sample: JViews TGO Faces component in a Facelets and Trinidad Context
  http://localhost:9090/jsf-tgo-facelets

Running the Sample Using WebSphere Application Server

In addition to the instructions provided for using Tomcat, the samples can be viewed on WebSphere Application Server. Follow the instructions: Running the Server-Side Samples and use the scripts to start the server and deploy the sample.

Once the server is running, you can see the sample by opening the following page: http://localhost:9443/jsf-tgo-facelets
The WAS administrative console can be used to verify or modify server settings: http://localhost:9043/ibm/console/

Note: the WAS server can start on a range of port numbers, therefore the value is not guaranteed to remain the same. The scripts provided with the samples can be used to obtain the port numbers used by the Admin Console and by the deployed Web applications. To retrieve a list of all the WAS port numbers, run the command line instruction: ant -f build_was.xml ws.list.ports

Topics Covered

• JavaServer Faces TGO
• Facelets
• Apache Trinidad

Detailed Description

This sample groups several code fragments. Each code fragment is an XHTML Facelets page.

The sample also includes several XML configuration files that enable you to use JViews components in a Facelets and Trinidad context.

Installation Directory

The JViews TGO Faces component in a Facelets and Trinidad Context sample is installed here.

Classes Involved

• ilog.tgo.faces.network.dhtml.component.IltFacesDHTMLNetworkView

Source Files

• SampleContext

  The context object that provides the network model.

• AbstractSampleContext

  Base context object used to maintain references to objects.

• action.AlarmStateHandler

  Handles the alarm management.

• popup.PopupMenuFactory

  Defines a pop-up menu factory for the network view.

• renderer.NEBaseRendererFactory

  Base renderer factory for the custom network element types.

• tgo

  This page shows how to display JViews TGO JSF Components in a Facelets context.

• tgo-trinidad

  This page shows how to display JViews TGO JSF Components in a Facelets and Trinidad context.

• WEB-INF/faces-config

  This configuration file shows how to set up Trinidad and Facelets rendering for JSF.

• WEB-INF/faces-config-std

  This configuration file shows how to set up Facelets rendering for JSF.

• WEB-INF/web-std

  This configuration file shows how to set up a Facelets application for Perforce JViews.