Another thought which I forgot was to probably give different options in openejb standalone. For example, one could download openejb standalone which has web admin. Or one could also download openejb standalone which is bundled with tomcat and has a web admin based on portlets+jsf+ajax . This would be a bigger binary, but its going to be totally optional for the user.
Or we could simply ship webadmin separately which could be bundled with tomcat as a separate download and make it pluggable into openejb, i.e. it would possibly be a jar which the user needs to drop in the lib directory of openejb standalone ... something like that. maybe we could then add Mohammad's and Manu's ideas to web admin I have not put too much thought behind the above, but thought maybe these options might lead to some more ideas ;) On 8/28/07, Karan Malhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are some things which have been floating in my mind for a while. > > the HttpServer we already have is pretty cool too. We can add more > stuff to it to add features proposed by Manu. I reviewed the > HttpServer a bit today and it has support for both GET and POST > request. I dont think we need support for any other request types. It > also has session support (I think through stateful session beans) > > I am hoping that it should not be difficult to add an AJAX filter to > it which processes AJAX requests. > > Secondly, in the HTTP Server itself, we could provide templates in > text files (instead of jsp's) and use swizzle to parse those templates > and spit out html . > > Also, it would be totally cool if we can write our own little action > based MVC framework. We don't need a full featured framework, just a > place where we can plugin our "actions" and get the next view etc. > > > > On 8/28/07, Mohammad Nour El-Din <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Karan, what did u mean by the Apache Commons Http, did u mean Apache > > Commons HttpClient, but it does not support building Http servers just > > clients !!! > > > > On 8/26/07, Karan Malhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I have been thinking about this. Would it be a good idea to port > > > WebAdmin to a more commonly known MVC framework like JSF? > > > > > > We could embed an HttpServer using apache commons Http which could > > > service web requests. > > > > > > The benefits I see here are > > > 1. Standard framework which becomes easier to maintain and add more > > > features to > > > 2. Standard out of the box GUI components which could be dropped into > > > the web interface > > > 3. Availability of more powerful and complex GUI components , e.g. > > > myfaces.apache.org > > > 4. Easier/Faster for other contributors to jump in and provide > > > enhancements (no steep learning curve) > > > 5. Can be AJAX'ed easily through libraries like ajax4jsf etc. > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > > > -- > > > Karan Singh Malhi > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Thanks > > - Mohammad Nour > > > > > -- > Karan Singh Malhi > -- Karan Singh Malhi
