Christopher Tubbs created ACCUMULO-4739:
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             Summary: Make 3rd party web resources (js, css) location 
configurable
                 Key: ACCUMULO-4739
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-4739
             Project: Accumulo
          Issue Type: Task
          Components: monitor
            Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
            Assignee: Michael Miller
            Priority: Blocker
             Fix For: 2.0.0


Currently, in the new monitor for 2.0 (after ACCUMULO-3005), some 3rd party web 
resources are accessed via an external CDN. This is suitable in many cases, but 
could be problematic for client browsers not currently connected to the 
internet or with a cached copy of the resources from the CDN.

These resources include bootstrap and jquery. Flot is also a 3rd party 
resource, but is currently bundled with Accumulo and served by the monitor.

The location of these resources should be made configurable, so that they can 
be bundled with, and served by, the Accumulo monitor instead of a 
internet-based CDN. Making the locations configurable also makes it possible 
for users to update, if there's a bug in a particular version of jquery that 
the administrator wishes to avoid, or they want to use a different bootstrap 
theme, for example.

Any new configuration option added to support making these configurable should 
be capable of supporting an arbitrary number of script and stylesheet 
resources, and possibly other resource types, as well as any accompanying 
integrity/crossorigin attributes for CDN access (see 
server/monitor/src/main/resources/templates/default.ftl for current values).

Also, I think the default value should be to point to the CDN, and not the 
locally bundled and served resources, so that the browser can take advantage of 
any caching for these commonly used resources. This would allow us to achieve 
ACCUMULO-2983 by stopping bundling these third party resources, but still 
supporting bundling, if needed.

To complete this issue, we basically need 2 things:
# Ensure monitor serves (to a predictable location) whatever arbitrary static 
resources it finds on the class path (so users can bundle their own static 
resources), and
# Ensure resources are configurable to point to the served versions or versions 
in a CDN.



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