Example application with best practices

[Jani Laakso]

Higher level goals

• best practices and patterns for developing IT Mill Toolkit applications
• shows the real difference between
  • Toolkit development (means "developing applications")
  • JSP / JSF development (means "developing web pages")

Provide

• "kickstart" application
• 2000-3000 lines of code
• application structure
• data layer mechanisms
• two examples for main layout (incl. expand layout)
• view concept
• navigation url concept
• login, help window
• theme example

Ask more info from Jani, I'll try to refine this ticket later.

[Joonas Lehtinen]

Do you see anything missing from Competence Management System, when it is matured from incubator?

[Jani Laakso]

I would not try to go through the easiest route with this ticket.

CMS was designed and developed by different requirements

• is CMS 2000-3000 lines of code? (simple enough)
• does it contain theme example topics
• example app should be minimalistic (only couple views, not fully working application)
  • CMS might go too deep in some areas? (especially in non toolkit specific stuff)

I doubt it would be adequate "example application with best practises".

[Marko Gronroos]

Who is doing the CMS? Reassign this ticket?

Also the Membership example application (currently in incubator) should provide all of the requirements, although it will probably be bigger than 2000-3000 lines even with minimal functionality. And it's intended to be a fully working application.