Paul, I think that would be an excellent approach at a redesign of the console (providing a native gp portal in geronimo). In the end it would undoubtedly cater to a greater amount of uniformity in both appearance and accessibility/functionality, possibly even branching into some more complicated multi-tiered administrative abilities, which would be pretty cool in itself.
On 6/12/07, Paul McMahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We have talked about upgrading the admin console to use a more recent version of pluto. Now that geronimo 2.0 has taken shape I took a look at pluto 1.2 and found that it has a lot of new features that we should take advantage of, including the ability to make our admin console more dynamic and customizable. It is not backwards compatible with the version that we currently use so we can't just swap in the jars. But that's OK since I think our goal to make the admin console more dynamic probably warrants a bit of redesign anyway. I just committed some stuff to sandbox that demonstrates one technique for integrating pluto into geronimo, and I think it can serve as the basis for a more dynamic admin console as well. You can try it out by following these steps: svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/sandbox/portals cd portals mvn geronimo/bin/deploy.sh install-plugin pluto-container/target/pluto- container-1.0-SNAPSHOT.car geronimo/bin/deploy.sh deploy pluto-portal/target/pluto-portal-1.0- SNAPSHOT.war geronimo/bin/deploy.sh deploy pluto-testsuite/target/pluto-testsuite.war point your browser at http://localhost:8080/pluto/portal This works in the minimal or jee5 assemblies, but right now it only supports tomcat because the <cross-context> setting is required in geronimo-web.xml. I was hoping to avoid a separate jetty module just for that setting, but maybe that's unavoidable. The maven related stuff could probably use some tuning as well. While working on this it occurred to me that we could consider providing a native general purpose portal in geronimo, and the admin console as we know it today could just be a collection of portlets deployed into it that are only visible to users with sufficient admin privileges. The stuff in sandbox could also help us move things in that direction if we like that idea. Thoughts? Best wishes, Paul
-- Erik B. Craig
