Each object has a ViewPrototypes Facet (Figure 4.5) which presents a set of prototypical View objects.

Figure 4.5. The ViewPrototypes Facet.

Given the settting:

Object employee = /* ... */; FacetRegistry fr = /* ... */;

the canonical manner in which a new View may be created is:

// Get the ViewPrototypes Facet of the domain object ViewPrototypes fvs = (ViewPrototypes) fr.getFacet(employee, new JavaType(ViewPrototypes.class)); // Choose one of the Views available View someProtoView = fvs.getViewPrototypes()[0]; // say // Get the Prototype Facet of the chosen View, and create // a new View using its methods Prototype s = (Prototype) fr.getFacet(someProtoView, new JavaType(Prototype.class)); View newView = (View)s.clonePrimaryObject(); // Tell the newly created View to display the original // domain object newView.setModel(employee);