It's me again.
Here some links for the geeks interested into this topic:
Inprise AppCenter:
White Paper: http://www.inprise.com/appcenter/papers/managing.pdf
Online-Docu: http://www.borland.com/techpubs/appcenter/appcenter40/
It's something like I have in mind except that I want to implement these
features:
- Dynamic lookups and environment detection (as far as I know in AppCenter
you have to configure your environment)
- Still have a repository or user preferences where the user can save its
environment
to limit the dynamic lookups
- Limit the access protocol to JMX Connector(s)
- Make it pluggable which means that the user can define which view he/she
wants
to use especially if there are different views for the same MBean (or group
of MBeans)
- Allow the system to detect upgrades on the (remote) MBeans and
use more than one view for different version of the (remote) MBeans
- SUPPORT for on-line help (like JavaHelp) (must also be pluggable)
- sexy GUI layout but for most this is the responsibilty of the service GUI
component
coder
After the design I would like to start with the implementation ASAP for a
small number
of core MBeans with simple GUIs. Even when the support for security has to
laid in
the design and implemenation I will postpone the full implementation for
later because
for now jBoss is still beta except someone else is keen to do it.
Have fun - Mad Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: Andreas Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: jBoss Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 12:37 PM
Subject: [jBoss-Dev] Administration GUI Framework
> Hi Geeks
>
> According to my other post about the administration GUI and EJX
> I want here to discuss the design of the Administration GUI Frame-
> work (AGF for short now).
>
> Because jBoss is a composition of services I like to make the AGF
> the same way. Therefore the AGF provides use with the following
> services:
>
> - Authentication and Authorization (thankx Juha)
> - Security (secure data transfer, access control, logging etc.)
> - Search and connection to local/remote jBoss instances to be
> managed
> - Pluggable structure for service management components (MBeans)
> - Configuration service (get and set of configuration properties to be
> available to all parts of the AGF)
> - Support for advanced GUI features like Icons with Drag and Drop
> etc.
> - GUI Framework with Menu, Working Pane, Help system (JavaHelp)
> etc.
>
> By the way IMO Diagnostic (as Juha mentioned) shoud be MBean
> service(s) offered by jBoss and the AGF should only provide a GUI
> representation of this MBean(s) because I would like to reduce the
> communication interface to JMX.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Have fun - Mad Andy
>
>
