Avoid Swing. Try GWT, its quite nice. http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/. You get the Java debuggability, and a browser-based GUI.
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Steve Loughran <ste...@apache.org> wrote: > On 02/08/11 05:09, Mark Kerzner wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I want to give my users a GUI that would allow them to start Hadoop >> clusters >> and run applications that I will provide on the AMIs. What would be a good >> approach to make it simple for the user? Should I write a Java Swing app >> that will wrap around the EC2 commands? Should I use some more direct EC2 >> API? Or should I use a web browser interface? >> >> My idea was to give the user a Java Swing GUI, so that he gives his Amazon >> credentials to it, and it would be secure because the application is not >> exposed to the outside. Does this approach make sense? >> > > 1. I'm not sure that Java Swing GUI makes sense for anything anymore -if it > ever did. > > 2. Have a look at what other people have done first before writing your > own. Amazon provide something for their derivative of Hadoop, Elastic MR, I > suspect KarmaSphere and others may provide UIs in front of it too. > > the other thing is most big jobs are more than one operation, so you are a > workflow world. Things like cascading pig and oozie help here, and if you > can bring them up in-cluster, you can get a web UI. >
