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Direct to Web Templates
Direct to Web generates the task Web pages using instances of the D2WPage class (itself a descendent of the WOComponent class) called Direct to Web templates. A Direct to Web template defines the basic layout for the task's user interface. Direct to Web includes 29 templates: 9 for the Basic look, 10 for the Neutral look, and 10 for the WebObjects look. For more information about looks, see "The Different Looks for WebObjects Applications". The Direct to Web templates are listed in Table 3-2.
Some Direct to Web templates perform multiple tasks. For example, an InspectPage template also edits. For some tasks, there are multiple Direct to Web templates in a given look that you can use. For example, you can use a ListPage, a PlainListPage, or a MasterDetailPage template to perform the list task.
Like any other
WOComponent, a Direct to Web template has an HTML template (.html )
file and a bindings (.wod ) file. What differentiates a Direct to
Web template from other components is that it resolves its bindings with the help
of the Direct to Web framework at runtime.
Note
that a Direct to Web template is different from a component's HTML template
(.html ) file: a Direct to Web template is a special type of
component while an HTML template is a file containing the HTML code that defines
a component's appearance.
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