Yeah thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: Juha Lindfors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: jBoss Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [jBoss-Dev] Future of EJX and remote administration GUI
> At 10:48 10.9.2000 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >That's my goal for the administration GUI:
> >- easy to use
> >- use of look and feel already used in other GUIs
> >- help support
> >- tailored GUIs for know services (MBeans)
> >- all purpose GUIs for unknown services
> >- save and retrieve of user settings
> >- use of advanced GUI elements like sliders, radio buttons, checkboxes,
> >icons etc. to make it more appealing for the user
>
> - authentication & authorization
>
> Who gets to admin the server, and what can they do in the server. Can the
> whole world browse the contents of the naming service, for example? Can
> anyone with the admin access stop any arbitrary J2EE app running in the
> server?
>
> - user management
>
> Create new users. Remove them. Create user groups. Grant them rights.
Store
> user specific settings.
>
> - diagnostics
>
> How many threads is the server eating up? How much memory it is using?
> Which bean is hogging up all the CPU cycles? How many transactions are
> currently in process? How many clients are connected? What's the average
tx
> completion time? per bean?
The idea of my mail was how to make the administration GUI and not what is
the content and I wanted to raise a discussion about if EJX is a suitable
framework
or we should use another (inclusive just plain Swing). But still thanks for
your
input!
> I think the task of creating an admin GUI may have been a tad misleading.
> It probably should have read 'create admin tools'. Or maybe that's a whole
> another task altogether.
>
> I also believe this should be 'tools' not just one tool with all sorts of
> different functionality in it. If there's a need to use these separate
> tools together then they should be brought together by a central admin
> framework that could be visualized as a task bar, menu bar or whatever
that
> allows you to launch different tools based on your needs.
I definitely think also that the administration GUI should be a framework
where
we can add additional GUI components but for that I will write another mail
today, see you then.
> Since we're working in a networked environment, the security (yeah there's
> that ugly word again) should be the main concern with ease of use right
> behind it.
Yeah, right. But for now I would like to start simple.
>
> -- Juha
Have fun, Mad Andy
