Yep, a "expert" or "show all" option would be the safest, where the
default would be not to show any org.apache.geronimo configs.
-Donald
Joe Bohn wrote:
We do something similar to this with the "expert mode" in the various
application views where we disable actions like stop, restart, and
uninstall on system modules unless the user specifies that they are an
"expert user" via the check-box.
To make the determination in those cases we look at the prefix for the
component id to see if it is "org.apache.geronimo.configs". However, it
seems this is no longer sufficient as our prefixes have been changing to
include o.a.g.plugins and o.a.g.framework while this feature has not
been updated. Perhaps we should change this function to only check for
"org.apache.geronimo".
Joe
Ivan wrote:
It may sound a good idea, but the question is that how we could
distinguish the system modules and applications deployed by users ?
2009/11/13 Ellen Tang <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Hi,
I'm currently reviewing the contents on the UI of the "Plugins"
portlet in G 2.2 admin console. I have a question for the "Create
Plugin" function.
As we can see, currently the drop-down list in the "Create Plugin"
portlet shows all the CAR files on the server, including system
plugins that already exist in the "%GERONIMO_HOME%\repository\"
folder. For example, you can find the plugin
"org.apache.geronimo.configs/activemq-broker/2.2-SNAPSHOT/car" in
the directory
"%GERONIMO_HOME%\repository\org\apache\geronimo\configs\activemq-broker\2.2-SNAPSHOT",
which contains the "geronimo-plugin.xml" file already. However,
according to the "Help" contents of the "Create Plugin" portlet, the
function of this portlet is that "The console will generate the
geronimo-plugin.xml file that stores the plugin metadata information
for your project and package it into a car file."
My question is that do we really need to include the system plugins
in the drop-down list of the "Create Plugin" portlet? If the system
plugins already exist in the "%GERONIMO_HOME%\repository\" folder
and they already have the "geronimo-plugin.xml" file, the users
would not need to use this "Create Plugin" portlet to create these
plugins again. Besides, this portlet doesn't do anything else to the
system plugins apart from exporting them as files, which the users
already have in the repository. Therefore, I think it's more
practical to only show the applications and/or application plugins
in the drop-down list of this portlet.
Does anyone think that it's a good idea to leave out the system
plugins but only keep the application plugins in this portlet? Maybe
we can do that in the 3.0 release?
Any comments are welcome.
Thanks!
Ellen
--
Ivan
