On 01/06/2014 03:06 AM, Claus Ibsen wrote:
Hi
I think the old web console should be moved into a sub-project of ActiveMQ.
Other ASF projects like Felix [1], Karaf [2], etc does this with their
web-consoles.
That may also make it easier for people to contribute to the
web-console as a sub-project if there codebase is smaller, and not
contains the entire ActiveMQ source code. That may spark a little more
life into the old web-console so people can help maintain it.
For the standalone ActiveMQ distribution, then installing the old web
console should be an easy step, such as unzipping a .zip file, or
copying a .war / .jar or something to a directory, and allowing to
editing a configuration file to configure the console (port / context
path / or other configurations). Then other 3rd party consoles could
have the *same* installation procedure, so there is even
playing-field.
For the embedded ActiveMQ distribution for SMX/Karaf users, its
already easy to install the console, as its just like any other
installation using a feature. This is the same for other 3rd party
consoles, and thus there is already an even playing field.
[1] -
http://felix.apache.org/documentation/subprojects/apache-felix-web-console.html
[2] - http://karaf.apache.org/index/subprojects/webconsole.html
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Robert Davies <rajdav...@gmail.com> wrote:
The old/original console is no longer fit for purpose, it is hard to maintain,
the source of a lot of security issues [1] over the last few years.
There is another thread about using hawtio as the console going forward, and
without going into all the gory details it is probably likely that there may be
no web console shipped at all in future releases of ActiveMQ. The JMX naming
hierarchy was improved for ActiveMQ 5.8, such that its easy to view the running
status of an ActiveMQ broker from 3rd party tools such as jconsole, visualvm or
hawtio. Regardless of the outcome of the other discussion [2] - It doesn’t help
the ActiveMQ project to try and maintain a static web console any more.
I propose we remove the old web console from the ActiveMQ 5.10 release -
thoughts ?
[1]
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-2714?jql=project%20%3D%20AMQ%20AND%20text%20~%20%22XSS%22
[2] http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Default-Web-Console-td4675705.html
Rob Davies
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+1
The old console has been a continuous source of bugs and there's not
been much community involvement in maintaining it so it'd be much better
to just remove from the mainline and provide a way for those who really
want to contribute to do so without shipping out something that's not as
polished in the main distribution.
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