Hi Amalka,

+1 on the approach taken. Lets share set of screen shots of integration
application home page too. I prefer to have different theme for each cloud.

thank you.

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Amalka Subasinghe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Currently, WSO2 App Cloud follows the container based approach to provide
> different runtime to deploy application artifacts. Likewise we can follow
> the same approach to deploy ESB car file as a app type in WSO2 App Cloud.
> But, our requirement is to provide a separate cloud perspective (view) for
> end users for integration solutions, so we thought to generalize the app
> cloud to operate in two modes (as app cloud and integration cloud) on
> single app cloud deployment.
>
>
>
> 1. We need two different URLs (https://apps.cloud.wso2.com and
> https://integration.cloud.wso2.com ) to login to separate clouds.
>
> How SSO works :
>
> Currently, when a user login, it redirect to WSO2IS for SSO and then it
> comes to app cloud with https://apps.cloud.wso2.com url. Same as when
> user requests integration cloud it should redirect to WSO2IS and then it
> comes to the app cloud with https://integration.cloud.wso2.com url. For
> that we use 2 different issuers and 2 SPs configured in IS side. When the
> request first come to the app cloud, we find which cloud the user requests
> based on the host name, and then redirect the request to IS with correct
> issuer.
>
> Loading relevant cloud view with valid titles, breadcrumbs, navigation
> buttons, etc ...:
>
> Once the SSO happens we put the requested cloud to the session and then
> loads the UI with the correct UI elements reading the following json file.
>
> {
>
>     "app-cloud" : {
>
>        "pageTitle": "WSO2 App Cloud",
>
>        "cloudTitle" : "Application Cloud",
>
>        "properties" : {
>
>            "documentationUrl": "AppCloud.Documentation.Url",
>
>            "supportUrl": "AppCloud.Support.Url”
>
>        }
>
>     },
>
>     "integration-cloud" : {
>
>        "pageTitle": "WSO2 Integration Cloud",
>
>        "cloudTitle" : "Integration Cloud",
>
>        "properties" : {
>
>            "documentationUrl": "IntegrationCloud.Documentation.Url",
>
>            "supportUrl": "IntegrationCloud.Support.Url”
>
>        }
>
>     }
>
> }
>
> 2. Based on the selected cloud, app cloud should operate as follows.
>
> - We want to differentiate app types per cloud.
>
> - Application home page should list the application which was created in
> selected cloud.
>
> - Application home page search function should work on application which
> was created in selected cloud only.
>
> - Separate subscription plans required per cloud. [max number of
> applications and databases per cloud]
>
> - Separate white listing required per cloud.
>
> So we changed the app cloud database table structure as shown in below
> diagram and updated the implementation to get per cloud data.
>
> With these changes we can deploy the app cloud as a separate deployment if
> required in future.
>
>
>
>
> ​
>
>
>
> 3. Unified UI design
>
>
> Per app type, we will be require loading different UI components to the
> app home page.
>
> As an example: How we display endpoints per app type. Different type of
> application provides different types of endpoints. ESB app types give SOAP
> and REST endpoints. Web/PHP gives just a web url. JAX-WS gives SOAP
> endpoint, etc…Likewise we will be required to add more UI components per
> app types. So we decided to go with unified UI design approach per app type
> with javascript abstraction layer.
> https://github.com/wso2/app-cloud/blob/master/modules/jaggeryapps/appmgt/src/modules/application/endpoints.jag
>
> This is how we render endpoints per app type:
> When user navigates to the app home page we make a call to the container
> and get the urls and generate the UI component to display in app home page.
> We don’t persist these endpoints in database. So user can’t see the
> endpoints when the container is not up and running.
>
>
>
>
> ​Please give your feedback on this if something looks wrong.
>
> Thank you
>
> Amalka
>
>
>
>


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