Creating JTaskPanes with the Spring Rich Client Project (Spring Rich)

The library ships with a jar file (l2fprod-common-springrcp.jar) providing integration with the Spring Rich Client Project. What does it mean? For JTaskPane, it means you will be able to build a JTaskPane the same way you are assembling menubars, toolbars, popup menus - through an xml description.

Note: Spring Rich integration has just been added to the library for the JTaskPane. Your feedback on the integration is highly welcome.

As example, suppose you are assembling a popup menu with Spring Rich, this menu is made of several actions (or commands). The definition of the popup menu in your xml file will look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN"
	"http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
<beans>

  ...

  <bean id="popUp"
        class="org.springframework.richclient.command.CommandGroupFactoryBean">
    <property name="members">
      <list>
        <value>newCommand</value>
        <value>propertiesCommand</value>
        <value>deleteCommand</value>
      </list>
    </property>
  </bean>

  ...

</beans>

where newCommand, propertiesCommand and deleteCommand are the items which will appear in the popup menu. Later to instantiate the popup, you'll do something like:

CommandGroup group = getWindowCommandManager().getCommandGroup("popUp");
JPopupMenu popupMenu = group.createPopupMenu();

Our goal with the Spring Rich integration is to be able to do the same with JTaskPanes. Basically in our view implementation, we want to create a JTaskPane with:

JTaskPaneCommandGroup group =
 (JTaskPaneCommandGroup)getWindowCommandManager().getCommandGroup("contextTasks");
JTaskPane taskpane = group.createTaskPane();

where the contextTasks is defined as follow in the same file as the previous popUp:

<bean id="contextTasks"
      class="com.l2fprod.common.springrcp.JTaskPaneFactoryBean">
  <property name="members">
    <list>
      <ref bean="commonTasks" />
    </list>
  </property>
</bean>

<bean id="commonTasks"
      class="com.l2fprod.common.springrcp.JTaskPaneGroupFactoryBean">
  <property name="members">
    <list>
      <value>newCommand</value>
      <value>propertiesCommand</value>
      <value>deleteCommand</value>
    </list>
  </property>
</bean>

Note the reference to the JTaskPaneGroup commonTasks. In turn, this JTaskPaneGroup references commands newCommand, propertiesCommand and deleteCommand. These commands will be turned into actions (and hyperlinks) in the JTaskPaneGroup.

References

• Spring Rich Client
• Integrate JTaskPane With Spring-RCP
  The Spring-RCP integration was originally Ryan Sonnek's work. Thank you Ryan for your contribution to the project.