I think this idea can be explored but we should give the current
initiative to include Ajax functionality to the console a shot first.
There’s no doubt that rich clients have their advantages over web apps
(performance and sophisticated widgets to name a few) but I think we
have a potential in Ajax to close this gap. It would be nice to get more
comments on this. What do others think?
Jason Dillon wrote:
Anyone have any thoughts on using Swing for the console... instead of
a webapp (which are kinda evil IMO)... and then using webstart to
serve it? Maybe using Netbeans (or that license not ASL friendly)?
I've done some work with NB before at it would be very easy to create
a rich user experience... and its easy to drop in new modules to
support different aspects of administration and monitoring.
I dunno.. just a thought...
--jason
