This is kick ass awesome... :-)
--jason
On Sep 10, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Paul McMahan wrote:
Recent work on GERONIMO-3413 provides a new admin console with two
main improvements:
- New system modules and 3rd party plugins can dynamically add
and remove their portlets in the admin console
- It has a smaller footrpint and minimal requirements on what's
running in the server. You can, for example, use this new console
in the minimal assemblies where Dojo and many jee5 components are
not present. As you customize your server the corresponding admin
portlets are dynamically added/removed from the admin console.
To try it out, build yourself a 2.1-SNAPSHOT minimal assembly or
you can use a jee5 assembly if you undeploy the old admin console
first. Then:
- svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/plugins/
console/trunk
- cd trunk
- mvn install
- <G>/bin/deploy.sh install-plugin console-tomcat/target/console-
tomcat-1.0-SNAPSHOT.car (for tomcat)
or
- <G>/bin/deploy.sh install-plugin console-jetty/target/console-
jetty-1.0-SNAPSHOT.car (for jetty)
Then at:
http://localhost:8080/console
you will see the "base" console that only has the portlets for
deployment, plugin management, security, etc. The other admin
portlets you might recall from the old admin console can be
selectively installed from the plugins available at:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/plugins
using steps similar to above. Note, the directory, roller,
spring, and tuscany plugins in that area of svn don't provide
admin console portlets yet. Actually I don't know if those
plugins are compatible with Geronimo 2.1-SNAPSHOT since David has
implemented a lot of improvements to the plugin system lately.
Like I mentioned above, in 2.1-SNAPSHOT the old admin console is
still pre-deployed in the jee5 assemblies while we figure out how
to restructure svn and the build process around the plugin
concepts. The new admin console is implemented as a plugin
outside of server/trunk, so it should be easy to swap out the
console bits out once we have everything else in place. If we
want to support the new console in an upcoming 2.0.x release of
Geronimo then David's recent changes to the car-maven-plugin,
plugin schema, and plugin installer would need to be backported to
the 2.0 branch, if that's appropriate.
Also, I have some of the artifacts staged in my personal ASF area
so that it's easier for you to build and test things out. After a
few days for collecting feedback I will deploy those artifacts to
the ASF snapshot repo if no major issues are identified.
Various todos:
- drive out the remaining bugs and rough spots. Like the JMX
viewer has some problems.
- fix weird http session problem in jetty, don't know if its a
bug in jetty, pluto, or the console code
- try to simplify the security model
- update the doc on wiki
- clean up poms
Best wishes,
Paul
