I had a discussion on IRC #geronimo about this, and it was suggested that I post to the G dev list to continue the discussion:
The Goal: To put a GUI front end on a downloadable 3rd party Geronimo plugin, preferably in the adminstration console where administrative security is already handled and configuration of components is natural. As far as I can gather, right now I would have to have my plugin modify the portlet configuration files directly and force a console reload on startup for this to happen, but I have also only been looking at the 1.1 code line so far. >From the IRC discussion: I chatted briefly with kevan and jgenender about this, and they suggested that instead of using 1.1 I focus on the 2.0 line since there was work being done in the area of the administration console. There seemed to be some minor discord about where exactly this new code lives (sandbox vs. trunk) and when exactly it will be released (2.0 or later). For my part, I'm interested to know what/where this new code is (and when it will be released is always good too), and what I will need to do as the plugin writer to integrate my portlet (or something other than a portlet?) into the new and improved console. Any help or pointers to the code are much appreciated. Thanks, Nat Harward P.S. -- for those interested this is for a plugin for Terracotta clustering for Geronimo.