We will have to think about how to properly implement this, but I'm sure it can be done.
---- Sent from my phone On Sep 16, 2011 10:13 PM, "Nuwan Bandara" <nu...@wso2.com> wrote: > Hi Azeez, > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Afkham Azeez <az...@wso2.com> wrote: > >> -1 to increasing the distribution size. Big -1 to this addition. Adding >> everything to carbon core violates the component model. >> > I agree the bundle is bulky in Size, and doing our best to reduce its size > (discussion on* [carbon-dev]Shindig upgrading effort*) it was 20MB before > and we have managed to reduce it to 12MB. > > About the component model; is there another mechanism you suggest to have > this feature to be integrated with the carbon-core ui, the objective of this > feature is, that any UI component developer can add a gadget simply from a > tag, like we add properties etc. if we make this a separate component IMO we > cannot get the model working. > > Can you suggest the correct way in doing this if it violates the component > model. > > Regards, > /nuwan > >> ---- >> Sent from my phone >> On Sep 16, 2011 4:19 PM, "Nuwan Bandara" <nu...@wso2.com> wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > We have done some work around gadget rendering, and we have developed a >> new >> > feature so that if you need a gadget in you page you do not need the >> > dashboard to show them. You can simply create a tag and add the gadget >> URL >> > and the UI part will be available in ur page. an example would be >> > >> > <c:gadget url="/foo.xml" height="100" width="100" class="gadget-style" /> >> > >> > once you add above tag you can place the gadget where ever you want in >> your >> > page. >> > >> > This feature can come in handy in many ways where you want to mix static >> and >> > dynamic information. We are working on revamping the system statistics >> page >> > with this new method just to demonstrate as a POC. >> > >> > However in-order to make this available we will have to add shindig a >> part >> > of carbon-core. Shindig is at the moment is 14.3MB and it will go down >> for >> > about 12MB with fixes to bundle plugin, hence this will increase the size >> of >> > the distribution in 12MBs. >> > >> > However I believe there are many advantages in having this as part of our >> > core UI framework. for an example Google it self is pushing this model in >> > almost all the pages they published recently [1]. I believe this feature >> can >> > be quite helpful for products like BPS, GREG and BAM directly. By having >> > this you can have functionalities like intercommunication between UI >> parts, >> > unified way to show analytics/statistics and any other dynamic content. >> > >> > comments and ideas welcome. >> > >> > [1] http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ >> > >> > -- >> > *Thanks & Regards, >> > >> > Nuwan Bandara >> > Senior Software Engineer >> > WSO2 Inc. | http://wso2.com >> > lean . enterprise . middleware >> > >> > http://nuwan.bandara.co >> > * >> > <http://www.nuwanbando.com/> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Carbon-dev mailing list >> Carbon-dev@wso2.org >> http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev >> >> > > > -- > *Thanks & Regards, > > Nuwan Bandara > Senior Software Engineer > WSO2 Inc. | http://wso2.com > lean . enterprise . middleware > > http://nuwan.bandara.co > * > <http://www.nuwanbando.com/>
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