On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/1/11 5:50 PM, Stefano Gargiulo wrote: >> >> Very interesting! Proposal #1 Will rock (world need this kind of webapps) >> and also the new api is a great thing for who wants to write a custom user >> management interface (i need this, for now i wrote one in php but i will >> be >> very happy to switch to your ldap api when mature) > > I would add something regarding the Web UI : we would be very interested in > using Eclipse RAP [1] to get the current Apache Studio application available > as a Web UI, with the same look and feel. We have already conducted some > experiments the last two years, and we know we aren't too far from being > able to provide a single applications which can be used either as a > standalone application, or as a plugin inside eclipse, or thanks to RAP, as > a web UI. > > What would be absolutely great would be to see if this can be done with the > current version (RAP 1.4-M6 is announced for march 18), and what are the > impacts on the current application.
I think RAPification of Studio is a bit special. First, as Alex already mentioned, it will be a heavy web application. Second, Studio uses shared and Server components, they are heavily modified, I don't foresee stability here within the next months. It would be necessary to deal with changed packages and dependencies all the time. That doesn't make it easy to work on a RAP version. Last not least, IMHO it is required to have deep knowledge of Eclipse RCP and Plugin development. Also experience with RAP would be good. I don't think that it is possible to get it working with 'only' Java skills within a fair time, this is really a big task. Kind Regards, Stefan
