factor the console portlets into separate plugins
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Key: GERONIMO-3413
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3413
Project: Geronimo
Issue Type: Improvement
Security Level: public (Regular issues)
Components: console
Affects Versions: 2.1
Reporter: Paul McMahan
Assignee: Paul McMahan
Fix For: 2.1
The administration console contains portlets for configuring the components in
a JEE5 server, and a few more things like debugging, creating deployment plans,
etc. Right now the collection of portlets is "hard coded" in the console's
pluto configuration. This makes it difficult for users to choose which
portlets they want in their console. For example some users may not want the
various classloader/dependency/JMX/LDAP/etc viewers because they require the
dojo library, which adds a non-trivial server footprint. But more importantly
this makes it difficult to deploy the administration console into a customized
geronimo assembly (like the minimal ones) because those assemblies typically
don't have all the JEE5 components installed that would be necessary to satisfy
the console's dependencies.
There is some work going on to make the console customizable using pluto 1.2's
portal driver framework. The portal driver allows the console to dynamically
add/remove portlets. Using this new capability from pluto provides the
capability to create an administration console for the minimal assembly that
contains only the base portlets, such as those necessary for deployment and web
server configuration. The other portlets need to be factored out of the admin
console as separately deployable WAR files and provided as plugins. This
allows the user to selectively install portlets from the plugin catalog. And
when the user deploys a component into the minimal assembly such as ActiveMQ
they should be able to install the JMS administration portlet at that point in
time, if desired.
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