Thanks for bringing this up! I think Django would be a good option. It's a Python based framework which provides many built-in features:
- An ORM for easy data access - An Administrative UI for user management - Follows MVC pattern (with slightly different terminology: Model -> Model, View -> Template, Controller-> View) - Rapid Form development including validations - Clean URL management - Provides a standalone web server for development - Could be deployed in Apache web server with mod_python Thanks On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected]>wrote: > +1 for writing a clean webapp. > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Pradeep Fernando <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> From time to time, the need of a separate front-end for Statos came up in >> various other threads. Here I'm starting this thread to bootstrap the >> effort. >> >> Why not existing UI: >> >> - The current admin console is derived from the Carbon UI framework >> - It has the 'Carbon' look. >> - Little bit hard to customize >> - It depends on WS backend calls >> >> The proposed frontend: >> >> - A webapp sitting inside Carbon framework (make use of embedded tomcat) >> - We can decide on the final look and feel >> - easy to host/customize (can host in separate tomcat instance if the >> user wants) >> - uses REST calls for backend communication. >> >> wdyt ? >> >> If you find this feature useful, other question would be, >> >> - what web technologies to use (jsp,gwt,etc) >> - the end design (wire-frames) >> >> >> thanks, >> --Pradeep >> > > > > -- > Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. > Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ > email: [email protected]; phone: +94 11 763 9614; cell: +94 77 787 6880 | +1 > 650 265 8311 > blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ > > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware >
