Hi All,
According to an internal discussion we had, we thought of introducing
$subject for improving the overall tooling experience of WSO2 middleware.
The main goal of this effort is to build a lightweight, cross-platform,
attractive, user-oriented tooling platform with reusable visualization
components.
This has several sub goals:
- Implementing reusable tooling components which can be used for
building an unified IDE:
- This would be similar to WSO2 Carbon architecture and analytics
platform where we implement reusable components and build products by
aggregating them.
- Reusing visualization components in web based UIs
- Making the tooling platform available on the web/cloud
To achieve this, we thought of implementing tooling components in HTML5,
CSS and JavaScript. This would allow us to make the tooling platform;
platform independent, reusable and web enabled.
*WSO2 JS Tooling Platform High Level Architecture*
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On high level, the WSO2 JS tooling platform would have above components.
Out of these we would first start with the visualization component and try
to come up with a JS library which can provide features needed for
implementing product specific tooling components.
*WSO2 JS Tooling Platform Component Architecture*
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According to the above concept, we would use existing JS frameworks such
as D3.js, Backbone and Lodash for implementing the core tooling framework.
In this model, D3.js will be used for utilizing basic features needed for
drawing shapes, Backbone will be used for implementing JavaScript
extendibility features (only using Model and View from its MVC
architecture) and finally Lodash will be used for utilizing utility
functions.
On top of the core tooling framework a collection of tooling components
will be implemented according to WSO2 product requirements. Initially we
will be starting with the NextGen ESB (Integration Server) by implementing
a sequence diagramming and data mapper modules.
The initial source code of this effort can be found in WSO2 Incubator [1].
Please feel free to try this out and share your thoughts.
[1]
https://github.com/wso2-incubator/js-tooling-framework
Thanks
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*Imesh Gunaratne*
Software Architect
WSO2 Inc: http://wso2.com
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