I have to agree with John that browser and platform support is the
most important factor. Furthermore, I think the ajax library in
library in Geronimo should continue to be shared across its webapps.
On both of these accounts I would lean heavily towards upgrading the
monitoring client (and the admin console) to Dojo 1.0.1 since it has
IE & Safari support and IMO is quickly becoming the open source ajax
library of choice. I am excited about running the admin console on
my ipod touch :-)
Best wishes,
Paul
On Dec 7, 2007, at 6:46 AM, John Sisson wrote:
Erik B. Craig wrote:
All,
Currently the monitoring client is using Dojo 0.4.3 charting,
which does not necessarily behave as expected on Firefox/Safari on
a mac, or on IE6 on Windows.
I consider this to be a shortcoming, and given the new version of
Dojo available (1.0.1), began investigating migrating the
monitoring client over to the new version of Dojo, only to find
that the new version of dojo appears to be a significant rewrite
of the old code base, leaving out some features that I consider to
be very visually pleasing and important for statistics viewing.
While rummaging through the Dojo forums, I stumbled upon another
Javascript graphing framework called Timeplot, which is part of
the SIMILE project at MIT, and while this has it's own set of
limitations... I'm trying to figure out the lesser of three evils
before it comes a time that this monitoring plugin will be
released, so that I have enough time (read: 3-5 days) to migrate
the javascript generation over to something new if necessary.
I have created a small demonstration page that shows all three
options graphed with the same data series, as well as weighing
some of the advantages/disadvantages I could come up with,
Please have a look, and let me know your thoughts.
http://people.apache.org/~ecraig/graphdemo/
Personally, I think it would be really cool if we could use the
Timeplot graphing libraries, as it is all BSD licensed and
therefore friendly I believe (right, Kevan?)... and also EXTREMELY
cool for showing multiple data series in one chart.
IMHO, as much as I dislike saying this.. IE support should be
mandatory considering the number of users who use it. The
disadvantages of Dojo 1.0.1 sound pretty minor compared the other
options not supporting browsers.
Regards,
John
