Customizing Which Form Fields Are Displayed

That concludes my little series on customizing which field forms are displayed in Metawidget. I've tried to show that field ordering is a suprisingly deep topic, with lots of different approaches and preferences. In short, there is no 'right' way to do field ordering. The only 'right' way is for a UI generator to have something simple out-of-the-box, then be sufficiently pluggable that people can adjust it to their architecture and tastes.

To recap, we have explored field ordering:

• Per screen:
  
  • Part 1 - IncludingInspectionResultProcessor
  • Part 2 - ViewGroupInspectionResultProcessor
  • Part 6 - ExcludingInspectionResultProcessor
• Per domain:
  
  • Part 3 - OrderInspectionResultProcessor
  • Part 4 - DeweyOrderInspectionResultProcessor
  • Part 5 - FieldOrderInspectionResultProcessor
• Universally:
  
  • Part 7 - JavassistPropertyStyle
  • Part 8 - FieldPropertyStyle
  • Part 9 - PropertyNameAnnotationProcessor

These are all in addition to Metawidget's out-of-the-box UiComesAfter, ComesAfterInspectionResultProcessor and Stub widgets.

Feedback, and additional field ordering preferences, very welcome!