Hi All, I think this tool is extremely cool and will save a lot of time, specially for new users.
I've been working on some doc for this wizard, here is the link http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC21/deployment-plan-creator.html It is far from complete but pls send your input. Cheers! Hernan Shiva Kumar H R wrote:
On Jan 4, 2008 8:22 PM, Hernan Cunico <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:Shiva Kumar H R wrote: > > On Jan 3, 2008 10:02 PM, Hernan Cunico <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote: > > Hi Shiva, > here are some thoughts I believe may help improve usability. > > - Add a *Back* button on each screen. Currently the only option is > *Cancel* if you made a mistake while entering the data. > > Currently browser's back button can be used for going back to the > previous screen. If it is not intuitive, let me know and I will add a > *Back *or *Previous *button. OR wait, the plan creator for EARs that I > am currently working on is Dojo 1.0 based, where instead of a sequence > of pages I am using Dojo tabs, and hence navigation becomes lot more > easier than Next/Previous buttons. If it comes up well I can implement > the same for web-apps as well. Let me come up with something that you > can also see and we will discuss this further. I would rather avoid using browser's back button, specially when configuring something (most of the time you end up loosing the info you already entered). Tabs should do the trick ;-) > > > - It would be cool to have the ability to create an additional > resource reference directly from the wizard. For example when > installing a DB app it would be nice to be able to create the JDBC > connection pool as well as specifying the resource ref name right > there. Currently it lists existing pools, maybe add a *New* button, > create the pool and then come back to the previous screen. Same > thing would be useful for JMS, java mail, etc. > > Sure. That's my intention as well. I am yet to figure out how to achieve > this. Would a "pop-up" with just a portlet for configuring the new resource work?Wow! Amazing idea Hernan. It never flashed to me. Let me look at how this can be implemented.Paul/others, Any hints how this can be achieved. Cheers! Hernan > > > I'll keep testing it and will provide more feedback. BTW, nice work!!! > > Thanks :) for looking at it. > > > > > Cheers! > Hernan > > Shiva Kumar H R wrote: > > The Plan Creator portlet/wizard in Admin Console is now complete. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3254 > > > > Features: > > a) EJB, EJB Local, JDBC Connection Pool, JMS Connection Factory, JMS > > Destination, JavaMail Session & Web Service *References *declared > in the > > web-apps are auto discovered and users are asked to resolve them by > > listing Available Resources in the server environment to which > they can > > be linked. > > b) Above type of references declared inside the Java classes through > > *Annotations *are also auto discovered. > > c) Simplified configuration of *Security*. > > > > I have only done limited testing so please raise any issues you might > > face while using. > > > > I am next working on handling EJB jars. Since most of the > infrastructure > > code is already in place, this should be complete in the next 1 or 2 > > weeks (ready to be included in 2.1 release). > > > > Comments/Feedback/Suggestions Welcome. > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Shiva > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Shiva -- Thanks, Shiva
