I'm in favour of removing the console completely, for the reasons you' d outlined.
On 25 Jan 2013, at 16:57, Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the context of a few web based consoles available for Camel, including the > Karaf console and the recently announced hawt.io, the question of if Camel > needs its own console popped up. > > My understanding is the some are in favor or Camel continuing to ship with a > web console. My personal opinion is that we should not (starting with 3.0). > > I understand that a web console is very useful to users and a nice to have. > However, our console is not that great (to put it mildly), not really > maintained and we lack the necessary ui knowledge in the community to > maintain something of excellent quality. I think we should focus on the > server side technology that we do so well. > > Therefore, my personal position and proposal is that we should either move > the console in a subproject or remove it completely. > > Thoughts? > Hadrian > > > -- > Hadrian Zbarcea > Principal Software Architect > Talend, Inc > http://coders.talend.com/ > http://camelbot.blogspot.com/