Folks,
here is some additional docs for the pluggable console.
User's and Developer's guide:
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDEV/pluggable-administration-console.html
Online presentation:
http://cwiki.apache.org/geronimo/pluggable-administration-console.html
Cheers!
Hernan
Matt Hogstrom wrote:
This is excellent...I'll give it a spin today .
On Sep 10, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Paul McMahan wrote:
Recent work on GERONIMO-3413 provides a new admin console with two
main improvements:
- New system modules and 3rd party plugins can dynamically add and
remove their portlets in the admin console
- It has a smaller footrpint and minimal requirements on what's
running in the server. You can, for example, use this new console in
the minimal assemblies where Dojo and many jee5 components are not
present. As you customize your server the corresponding admin
portlets are dynamically added/removed from the admin console.
To try it out, build yourself a 2.1-SNAPSHOT minimal assembly or you
can use a jee5 assembly if you undeploy the old admin console first.
Then:
- svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/plugins/console/trunk
- cd trunk
- mvn install
- <G>/bin/deploy.sh install-plugin
console-tomcat/target/console-tomcat-1.0-SNAPSHOT.car (for tomcat)
or
- <G>/bin/deploy.sh install-plugin
console-jetty/target/console-jetty-1.0-SNAPSHOT.car (for jetty)
Then at:
http://localhost:8080/console
you will see the "base" console that only has the portlets for
deployment, plugin management, security, etc. The other admin
portlets you might recall from the old admin console can be
selectively installed from the plugins available at:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/plugins
using steps similar to above. Note, the directory, roller, spring,
and tuscany plugins in that area of svn don't provide admin console
portlets yet. Actually I don't know if those plugins are compatible
with Geronimo 2.1-SNAPSHOT since David has implemented a lot of
improvements to the plugin system lately.
Like I mentioned above, in 2.1-SNAPSHOT the old admin console is
still pre-deployed in the jee5 assemblies while we figure out how to
restructure svn and the build process around the plugin concepts. The
new admin console is implemented as a plugin outside of server/trunk,
so it should be easy to swap out the console bits out once we have
everything else in place. If we want to support the new console in an
upcoming 2.0.x release of Geronimo then David's recent changes to the
car-maven-plugin, plugin schema, and plugin installer would need to be
backported to the 2.0 branch, if that's appropriate.
Also, I have some of the artifacts staged in my personal ASF area so
that it's easier for you to build and test things out. After a few
days for collecting feedback I will deploy those artifacts to the ASF
snapshot repo if no major issues are identified.
Various todos:
- drive out the remaining bugs and rough spots. Like the JMX viewer
has some problems.
- fix weird http session problem in jetty, don't know if its a bug in
jetty, pluto, or the console code
- try to simplify the security model
- update the doc on wiki
- clean up poms
Best wishes,
Paul
