Composite View
Context
Sophisticated Web pages present content from numerous data sources, using multiple subviews that comprise a single display page. Additionally, a variety of individuals with different skill sets contribute to the development and maintenance of these Web pages.
Problem
Instead of providing a mechanism to combine modular, atomic portions of a view into a composite whole, pages are built by embedding formatting code directly within each view.
Modification to the layout of multiple views is difficult and error prone, due to the duplication of code.
Forces
Atomic portions of view content change frequently.
Multiple composite views use similar subviews, such as a customer inventory table. These atomic portions are decorated with ...
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