Jody Garnett ha scritto: > Andrea Aime wrote: >> That's why I ended up discarding it the first round of evaluations. It >> may work, but we have to lower the barrier of what we want out of our UI. > So what would we need to relax to use GWT? Probably the ability to > "drop" more functionality into GeoServer in jar form.. leaving it as a > build time only option. Andrea the origional model for dropping new > functionality in was the WAR; is there any merit of the idea of separate > WARs each done with GWT? I admit it bites off a whole whack of > complexity (WARS sharing services via JNDI etc...) and is part of what > Spring was designed to clean up...
I'm quite ignorant about how GWT apps in separate WAR can collaborate with each other. Would it be possible to make a new configuration panel for a datastore and have it embed somehow in the same main GWT application? What about services, can they contribute components to the feature type/coverage/... configuration panels? If not, where do we put all the options that are specific to a service? Are we able to make up a sort of a global breadcrumbs handling if the applications needed to handle other stuff like What would be the communication model between the GWT front end and GeoServer? I guess we'd better use the REST api to perform all configuration tasks, right? Finally, the idea of needing JNDI in order to wire up the UI scares me quite a bit, I know it's available in most containers, but it exposes more of GeoServer to the outside world (allowing admins to mess with it) and I don't know how reliable it is in each web container around.... seems like an extra risk? >> Also, with GWT I'm not sure how much we'd be able to leverage a web >> page designer work, that is, we probably can, but we'd end up looking >> at his templates and then try to replicate them in code, right? > It is not completely clear cut like I first thought; a web designer can > do a fair amount with style sheets on the generated result. But out of > the box the basic layout is provided by the programmer. Yep, more or less what I thought Cheers Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
