Mike Henderson is an independent consultant based in Southern California. He has been working with Java since 1999, prior to that he concentrated on Objective-C development and was a WebObjects consultant with NeXT Software. Mike has extensive experience developing Web applications with component-based frameworks and over 15 years experience developing distributed software systems in a broad range of industries.
In working with Tapestry I find myself getting confused by the number of
components and their parameters, even when using the excellent Spindle
plugin. I haven't written an Eclipse plugin yet so I put together a plugin,
building on the Spindle classes to browse the components available in my
project.
The plugin adds a new view the 'Palette' to Eclipse. The image below shows
the Palette on the left of the source code editor area (click on the image to
see a larger view).
The Palette consists of a tree of Tapestry components, organized by
namespace. Selecting a component in the tree displays a summary in the lower
part of the view showing the component description and listing required and
optional parameters along with their descriptions.
Once I got this far I looked into using the Palette as a source for component
editing data. I reviewed the Eclipse drag and drop API ... (more)
Mike Henderson is an independent consultant based in Southern California. He has been working with Java since 1999, prior to that he concentrated on Objective-C development and was a WebObjects consultant with NeXT Software. Mike has extensive experience developing Web applications with component-based frameworks and over 15 years 
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