This is great. IMHO, the runtime visualization of WF is more needed than visual modelling tools.
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Mohammad Islam <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alejandro, > OOZIE-884 and 883 are for the same modeling tool to generate/view > workflow.xml. > We splitted the task into two JIRAs because two persons are driving these > related issue.= > > 884 is to finalize the look and feel design. Not the implementation. > 883 is to evaluate different technology such as GWT to implement the > design decided on 884. > > However, we need to create another JIRA for runtime visualization of WF. > > Regards, > Mohammad > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alejandro Abdelnur <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 9:29 AM > Subject: Re: Workflow Modeling tool: please comment > > Great that you guys are bootstrapping this. > > Assuming I understand correctly these 2 JIRAs: OOZIE-884 is for graphic > representation of a WF and OOZIE-883 is for WYSIWYG authoring a > workflow..... > > * OOZIE-884 would belong to the web UI where the user would see graphically > where the processing is for the WF > * The web UI needs a revamp to be able to see detailed info of coord/bundle > jobs > * The web UI needs to be rewritten using a UI framework other than ExtJS > for licensing issues > * A problem we always had the Oozie developers is the lack of Javascript > skills to improve the web UI > * What I really like about Oozie-883 mock up is the 'load WF' button, this > is a critical feature, being able to suck and edit an existing WF > * Using GWT seems like a good choice as it would allow IDE development and > Java skills > * As GWT converts things to JS we could still deploy the console as we do > today (part of the WAR) (this is a big plus over things like PHP, Phyton > backend solutions) > * IMO we should open an new JIRA to port the existing web UI to GWT as > well. > > An maybe we should model a couple of screen of the existing web UI in GWT > to see that it will work. > > Thx. > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Mohammad Islam <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > At last, the Oozie team at Yahoo has taken concrete steps to implement > the > > most expected feature of Oozie: Workflow modeling tool to generate XML. > > Ryota is evaluating different UI tools and opened a JIRA ( > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-884). > > Ashish is designing a mock UI and also created another JIRA to track. ( > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-883) > > > > Please give your suggestions/comments into those JIRAs. > > > > Regards, > > Mohammad > > > > > > -- > Alejandro > > -- ..Senthil "If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now." - Douglas Adams.
