Hi On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Nuwan Bandara <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> I think the problems are really clear and crystal. The biggest is the >>> devlopment effort. Then I get this question of why does it need to go though >>> a server side component at all for many cases, where the browser can do it >>> completely and cleanly with JS. And with the second point, again comes the >>> ease of development, all that you want is to Google, and there is enough >>> support around on how to write with JQuery. So what does it give me as added >>> advantage to use Shinding here and why is it better? Gadget repo? Gadget >>> communication? Gadget security? >>> >> >> I get your point :) but I believe a person who is willing to google a bit >> and find some nice jquery plugins/mechanisms wont find any difference in >> writing a gadget. It is no deference in writing a webpage with javascript >> and writing a gadget. you can simply ignor all the features that a gadget >> offer and simply write the web page as a gadget. >> >> So IMO a gadget is something that gives more than some web content. It is >> dynamic, portable, and give other benefits as you specified. So I see no >> defferent in using a different dashboard solution for other products when >> you can do the same thing with an equal effort. >> > > +1 - there's no work difference between writing a gadget and a writing a > pure JS UI bit: The gadget code can simply do exactly that. > ++1, anyhow, since the conclusion of this thread is to have this feature as an option, We have made the shindig bundle an instalable item, so for the product teams that need this feature can add it to their products, and create re-usable ui components. > > The advantage is that the gadget is reusable (by design), is a standard, > can be part of a repo of gadgets to be shared in other places etc. etc.. The > main reason we're not seeing those benefits right now is because our gadgets > are not cool enough :). Too much flash will do that to you. > We have the wso2vis library in place now, so we got some cool graphs and charts. Regards, /Nuwan > > Sanjiva. > -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Carbon-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev > > -- *Thanks & Regards, Nuwan Bandara Senior Software Engineer WSO2 Inc. | http://wso2.com lean . enterprise . middleware http://nuwan.bandara.co * <http://www.nuwanbando.com/>
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