On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Milinda Pathirage < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I did some experiments with jQuery and lift web frame work (Sorry for the > late reply). I think jQuery will be a better choice for the client side. > But > I have some doubts about using lift on the server side. > As I understand there are disadvantages as well as disadvantages. As Alex > mentioned in the previous mail > - Deploying Lift webapps is the same as any Java .war file, so it should > be > instantly familiar to our existing user base. > - forward-thinking web frameworks are a more fertile learning grounds > than > yesterday's technology (referring specifically to Java/JSPs) > are advantages. > > But this will increase the number of dependencies. When thinking about > dependencies, we have to lift with ODE or ask users to install it and also > have to have Scala install in development machines. Yes, more dependencies. Regardless of the solution, I think one should be able to build Ode without the Console, and vice-versa. Also according to my experience we can develop web interface by only using > AJAX and Web Services exposed specially for management related tasks > (Currently we have Management API, but if we need more functionality we > need > to improve it). AJAX with Web Services technique is used in WSO2 WSAS > AFIAK. Yes, that's also possible but requires a bigger dose of Javascript. > Also I think it's better if we can introduce some authentication and > authorization mechanism to this management interface. By doing this e can > limit functionalities for different user groups. Like admin can > start/retire > process models but normal users can't. But when using this we have think > about how we manage sessions and few security related things. Agreed. > Also I have problems with buildr build system in Linux (Ubuntu 7.10). > Currently I am using binary distribution. It's better if some one can add > some more documentation or FAQ about these build problems. At one time > when > buildr is successfully started in my machine, the rake build system crash > with segmentation fault :(. This is most likely because you're using JDK 6 or installing Buildr with JDK6 as your default JVM. Buildr doesn't work on JDK6 yet because of one of its dependencies (rjb). The documentation for Buildr 1.3 (coming soon) has a better installation/troubleshooting guide. alex
