Spring JS – Lack of an API or Documentation
Hi all,
This is a bit of a call out to the readers of the blog. In particular any Spring developers.
Recently I have been attempting to use Spring Web Flow and in particular it’s Spring JS implementation to Ajaxify applications I am working on.
However the documentation on Spring 3 and its Javascript support is quite lacking. In fact it seems to only consist of:
http://static.springsource.org/spring-webflow/docs/2.0.x/reference/html/ch11s04.html
Literally that is all the ‘official’ documentation I can find the rest seems to be forum posts by the Spring community.
Can anyone share any experience? Or give any feedback on the framework? Could we (as a community) look to help the development of this documentation?
By the way this shouldn’t put anyone off using Spring for the web application development. As a whole the framework is very useful and effective!!
Hi Michael,
So I guess the question is what can we do about it?
I have also posted on the Spring forums if you would like to leave your comments?
Eggsy
I agree, that’s really meager documentation. Most of Spring Framework is like that. You don’t know how effing long it took me just to figure out how to populate an HTML select element using Spring’s form JSP tags (the ‘path’ attribute of the select element and the ‘items’ attribute of a nested ‘options’ element cannot be the same, even though the official documentation says exactly the opposite).
What I think is desperately needed is something like what the MySQL and PHP documentation pages have, which is user comments beneath (but on the same page as) the official documentation.