Chapter 10. Building the Application User Interface
In the previous chapter, you worked close to the services to retrieve and make data available for consumption by the user interface (UI). As we have seen before, in WEF jargon, the UI is also referred to as the Service Consumer layer.
In this chapter, we switch our attention to the UI. We will discuss and demonstrate how WEF can offer tremendous productivity gains while building the application user interface for your portlets. We will look into some techniques to build the UI employing high-level builders.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
Choosing the right builders to create the UI
Understanding how WEF builds UI
Data-driven development approach
High-level versus low-level builders
Data Services User Interface builder
Design pane
Rich Data Definition builder
Theme UI builder
Modifier builders
Base page in high-level builders
HTML templates
As you can see from the preceding list, we have a lot to cover in this chapter. In fact...
