Great feedback! For adding stuff to admin console .. generally I'm -1 on adding developer stuff to the admin console. We've in fact been moving more and more towards making it more of just an admin console and not a developer tool.
Added Jackie too for doc updates. Jackie please review mail from Srinath below if you haven't seen it already. Sanjiva. On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Srinath Perera <[email protected]> wrote: > I did worked with ESB lot in a previous week and have some feedback > > 1. Now Docs are pretty good, we managed without having to ask ESB team > much even though none of us work work with ESB day to day > 2. Descriptions need few samples - currently often each mediator has > one example. But if it can be used in different ways, it helps to have few > examples. Ant manual does this very well. > 3. It is bit tricky to find out where some stuff are. I think overall > section structure can improve I think. > > Payload mediator is a life saver, and it make the expereince very neat. > But still there are many samples that uses enrich which can be done with > payload. > > Need to update the samples to use new things like payload medatior and > receive method in <send> for service chaining > > Still one of the main challenge is debugging. I think we can improve > experience by adding more logging. > > - improve <log .. > so we can add log messages without taking too much > real state of the program (I sent a mail to arch@) > - Add a mediator like env command that let us print all properties at > a given point > - Another idea is to add an mediator to hold execution and may be let > interactive control and inspection for debugging via a admin service call > (mapped as scripts) > > We need a list of all supported xpath functions in one place(is it > already there?) > > Our aggregate is implicitly bound to a closest clone/ iterate. If you > think is language terms, it actually solve three problems. > > 1) create new threads > 2) iterate messages > 3) wait for and process things (join threads) > > As all three cases are linked, sometime it is tricky to use aggregate and > iterate. Think we can improve things. I will send another mail. > > Few other things > > 1. I think we need a say to do things atomically in ESB. Something > like synchronised block or check and set operation . > 2. I think we need support for regex extraction for text manipulation > 3. I think we need support for List templates from Admin console UI > > > WDYT? > > --Srinath > > -- > ============================ > Srinath Perera, Ph.D. > Director, Research, WSO2 Inc. > Visiting Faculty, University of Moratuwa > Member, Apache Software Foundation > Research Scientist, Lanka Software Foundation > Blog: http://srinathsview.blogspot.com/ > Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hemapani/ > Phone: 0772360902 > -- Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ email: [email protected]; phone: +94 11 763 9614; cell: +94 77 787 6880 | +1 650 265 8311 blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
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