[SHALE-183] Shale Remoting doesn't support linking Javascript of popular javascript libraries.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: TBD
• Component/s: Remoting
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ed Burns
• Created: 03/Jun/06 03:49
• Updated: 23/Dec/06 17:35

Description

I would like to have an enhancement to XhtmlHelper.linkJavascript() that supported many different popular JavaScript libraries. For example, I'd like to do something like:

getXhtmlHelper().linkJavascript(context, component, writer,
Mechanism.CLASS_RESOURCE, "dojo", "0.3.0");
getXhtmlHelper().linkJavascript(context, component, writer,
Mechanism.CLASS_RESOURCE, "prototype", "1.4.0");
getXhtmlHelper().linkJavascript(context, component, writer,
Mechanism.CLASS_RESOURCE, "scriptaculous", "1.6.1");

And rest assured in the knowledge that the proper script elemnets will be rendered out iff no-one else on this request has asked for these scripts to be rendered.

If we make jMaki and jsf-extensions use this, then we can save a lot of code and bandwidth.