ADF View Controller - Page Transitions

Question

Hi All,
Definitley releveant here - JSF 2.0 / Jdev 11.1.2
This one may be considered a little left of filed, but has anyone out their played around or implemented view controller transitions? Depending upon the network speed, with a lot of my pages, I can see the components rendering and loading. This is especially true with tables set with auto-height-rows not equal to -1.
Just to be clear, some other front-end only frameworks give you the ability to slide or fade into the new page, once this is entirely loaded into the DOM.
My educated guess is that this would involve some sort of View Model Layer extension, however I am guessing that this may be one of the areas that not many developers have attempted to tackle. Nothing on google so far - that or my search terms are way off.
Even if someone could provide some psuedo logic into how this theortetically would be achieved. From my experience in ADF, I have realised that the framework is very extensible, and being open source, could support this requirement.
Cheers,
Simo
Edited by: Simo on Jun 19, 2012 11:51 PM
Edited by: Simo on Jun 19, 2012 11:52 PM
Edited by: Simo on Jun 19, 2012 11:55 PM

Answer 1

Simo,
you may want to try partial page navigation as documented here http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/web.1111/b31973/ap_config.htm#sthref409to speed page transition.
I don't think that open source is a guarantee for animated transition(and ADF is not open source) as otherwise we would see that e.g. in Trinidad MyFaces or other open source JSF frameworks. Instead what we do is to work on reducing the page content size and the supplement CSS and JS file downloads (You will see improvements when JDeveloper 12c goes out) . Other strategies for faster page load and response include the use of page templates and ADF regions. So unless you need transition for a visual effect I am not quite sure I want to follow that adding transition animation is a way to improve the use experience in regards to performance
Frank