Hey Toni, :) I'm too modest. ;-)
Plus there are a few similar ideas being touted around. A few of us started a Vaadin-OSGi discussion group (it's a little quiet though): http://groups.google.com/group/vaadin-osgi Peter Kriens has taken a similar approach to myself, but I believe his work is EPL (could be wrong). ;-) Cheers, Chris On 13 October 2010 10:38, Toni Menzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, i think for a rapidly developed but maintainable and complete > admin console - like what we need for ace server - Vaadin looks like a > valid option. > I would not concider vaadin for middle or large scale web-wide > deployments though. If Vaadin's radical "all server side - client = > stupid" approach applies to a usecase then its probably the ace server > admin ui. > > I am a little concerned why there isn't a well spread OSGi Web Toolkit > yet. Just because this question pops up regularly and i haven't seen > an answer yet. Maybe something pops out while ace server ui is being > implemented with vaadin e.g. > > @Chris, > vaadin-osgi looks like a start in the right direction. ;) Just its > hidden in vaadin extensions. Think you would not find it if you not > consider vaadin already ? If its decent, why not take it to a broader > audience ? > > Toni > > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Christopher Brind > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Marcel, > > > > I've done a fair amount of work with Vaadin and OSGi and am working on a > > project for a customer with such. It's not 100% perfect, but as long as > > you're not adding a lot of custom components you can build UIs quite > rapidly > > and in a modular way. > > > > I've created an OSGi compatibility layer that lets you create Vaadin > > applications as DS components. The official download is here: > > http://vaadin.com/directory#addon/vaadin-osgi > > > > ... but my github repository is more up to date: > > http://github.com/brindy/VaadinOSGi > > > > Feel free to use it if you want, it's Apache licensed. :) > > > > Cheers, > > Chris > > > > > > On 13 October 2010 09:34, Marcel Offermans <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> Hey all, > >> > >> Some time ago, we started work on a web based UI for ACE based on GWT. > >> Feature wise, GWT is great, providing a nice web UI that supports things > >> like drag and drop. There are two big downsides of GWT though: > >> > >> The first is that the javascript generation is rather slow, making the > >> development cycle when doing UI updates fairly slow. > >> > >> The second is that there is no way to modularize the GWT based UI. You > >> always have to compile it in one go. > >> > >> In my opinion, Vaadin [1], a toolkit built on top of GWT that is > released > >> under the Apache Licence Version 2.0, solves both issues nicely. I'm > >> seriously considering moving the whole UI to it. WDYT? > >> > >> Greetings, Marcel > >> > >> [1] http://vaadin.com/ > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > Toni Menzel || http://okidokiteam.com >
