Re: [Geoserver-devel] Planning 2.0 user interface

2008-05-08 Thread Andrea Aime
Chris Holmes ha scritto: > Arne and I are right now at: > > Choosing Your Java™ Technology-Based Web Framework: A Comparison > > https://www28.cplan.com/cc191/sessions_catalog.jsp?ilc=191-1&ilg=english&isort=&isort_type=&is=yes&icriteria9=TS-6457 > Btw, I looked at the abstract and there is no

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Planning 2.0 user interface

2008-05-08 Thread Andrea Aime
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > So the talk wasn't enough to make any strong statements, but I was left > with the impression that unless you want to Grails for the sake of > Groovy, then there was little reason to consider anything but GWT or > Wicket (ie. Tapestry and Struts 2 got grounded). >

[Geoserver-devel] [jira] Created: (GEOS-1911) Geoserver returns an exception if a property-filter for a property of the type string contains a letter, but in the db the property is of the type integer

2008-05-08 Thread Stefan Hansen (JIRA)
Geoserver returns an exception if a property-filter for a property of the type string contains a letter, but in the db the property is of the type integer ---

[Geoserver-devel] confusion about CoverageStoreInfo, CoverageStore, and readers

2008-05-08 Thread Justin Deoliveira
Hi all, still at it with new configuration work... and i have some questions about CoverageStoreInfo, and how they relate to CoverageInfo, and GridCoverageReader I would think the relationship is similar as DataStoreInfo and FeatureTypeInfo, one to many. However it seems that code that grabs a

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Planning 2.0 user interface

2008-05-08 Thread ak
So the talk wasn't enough to make any strong statements, but I was left with the impression that unless you want to Grails for the sake of Groovy, then there was little reason to consider anything but GWT or Wicket (ie. Tapestry and Struts 2 got grounded). I'm not the best person to ask, but

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Planning 2.0 user interface

2008-05-08 Thread Justin Deoliveira
Just to chime in with my thoughts. Chris's suggestion of pure REST + templating is quite tempting, just from a simplicity standpoint. easy to understand how it works, low entry barrier, etc... However in the end I think I agree with Andrea, an approach based on this we will end up writing a lot

Re: [Geoserver-devel] User interface alternatives

2008-05-08 Thread Jody Garnett
Luca Morandini wrote: > Other frameworks too: hiding the UI rendering technology is a high on > the list of many a tool (especially when client-side Javascript is > involved). > > As I see it, the crux is whether UIs should be designed procedurally (as > in wicket or GWT) or declaratively (as in

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Planning 2.0 user interface

2008-05-08 Thread Chris Holmes
Arne and I are right now at: Choosing Your Java™ Technology-Based Web Framework: A Comparison https://www28.cplan.com/cc191/sessions_catalog.jsp?ilc=191-1&ilg=english&isort=&isort_type=&is=yes&icriteria9=TS-6457 So hopefully this will provide us with the answer at the end ;) Andrea Aime wrote

Re: [Geoserver-devel] User interface alternatives

2008-05-08 Thread Luca Morandini
Jody Garnett wrote: > Luca Morandini wrote: >> Pure Java... wow ! Do you plan to write your mark-up using servlets ? ;) >> > I think you have hit the nail on the head; ie why we have been looking > at use interface frameworks so carefully. > > There is a list of requirements Andrea was shoppin

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Planning 2.0 user interface

2008-05-08 Thread Andrea Aime
Chris Holmes ha scritto: > Ok, cool. Yeah, that was my fear with it, but then I saw that Hudson's > user interface looked pretty nice. But it looks like you've already > done a pretty full evaluation. Oh well, it was a nice dream to have for > a bit :) Eh, I was started the same way, I downl

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Planning 2.0 user interface

2008-05-08 Thread Chris Holmes
Ok, cool. Yeah, that was my fear with it, but then I saw that Hudson's user interface looked pretty nice. But it looks like you've already done a pretty full evaluation. Oh well, it was a nice dream to have for a bit :) Chris Andrea Aime wrote: Chris Holmes ha scritto: ... Ok, I don't w

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Planning 2.0 user interface

2008-05-08 Thread Andrea Aime
Chris Holmes ha scritto: ... > Ok, I don't want to dictate technology choices at all, since I won't > be working with the codebase. But I do want REST as a first class > citizen, in some ways even more so than the UI. So from my > perspective it seems like having a technology that can handle bot

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Planning 2.0 user interface

2008-05-08 Thread Chris Holmes
Andrea Aime wrote: Chris Holmes ha scritto: Apologies for not being all up on this thread, hopefully soon I'll find some time to sit down and digest it all. But I wanted to throw out a thought on UI. Instead of picking a full blown UI framework we could consider just using a template lang

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Planning 2.0 user interface

2008-05-08 Thread Jody Garnett
Chris Holmes wrote: > There obviously are some open questions in this approach, like what is > lacking versus the full blown UI technologies - things like > internationalization, ect. But I think we should do our UI technology > evaluation hand in hand with our rest stuff. I don't think I have

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Planning 2.0 user interface

2008-05-08 Thread Andrea Aime
Chris Holmes ha scritto: > Apologies for not being all up on this thread, hopefully soon I'll find > some time to sit down and digest it all. But I wanted to throw out a > thought on UI. > > Instead of picking a full blown UI framework we could consider just > using a template language, like f

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Planning 2.0 user interface

2008-05-08 Thread Chris Holmes
Apologies for not being all up on this thread, hopefully soon I'll find some time to sit down and digest it all. But I wanted to throw out a thought on UI. Instead of picking a full blown UI framework we could consider just using a template language, like freemarker, to provide the UI through

[Geoserver-devel] Hudson build is back to normal: geoserver-1.6.x #214

2008-05-08 Thread jdeolive
See http://gridlock.openplans.org:8080/hudson/job/geoserver-1.6.x/214/changes - 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

[Geoserver-devel] User interface alternatives

2008-05-08 Thread Jody Garnett
Luca Morandini wrote: > Pure Java... wow ! Do you plan to write your mark-up using servlets ? ;) > I think you have hit the nail on the head; ie why we have been looking at use interface frameworks so carefully. There is a list of requirements Andrea was shopping for on a wiki page somewhere,

[Geoserver-devel] Planning 2.0 user interface

2008-05-08 Thread Jody Garnett
So in Tuesday's meeting we figured out the scope for Geoserver 1.7, renaming this subject line to match ... Andrea Aime wrote: > The "eat your own dog food" argument is good, but I expect the REST > api to have its own battery of unit and functional tests (my position > atm is to vote -1 for any c

[Geoserver-devel] Build failed in Hudson: geoserver-1.6.x #213

2008-05-08 Thread jdeolive
See http://gridlock.openplans.org:8080/hudson/job/geoserver-1.6.x/213/changes Changes: [aaime] GEOS-1904, Dump data loading stack traces with a normal logging configuration, as it is now it makes error diagnosis just too hard -- [...truncated 17 lines...]

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Planning

2008-05-08 Thread Andrea Aime
Luca Morandini ha scritto: > Andrea Aime wrote: >> My plan was to tackle this by making the UI pluggable, but still pure >> java. > > Pure Java... wow ! Do you plan to write your mark-up using servlets ? ;) Wicket is as pure java as it gets, you only have to write a (pure) html file with ids an

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Planning

2008-05-08 Thread Luca Morandini
Andrea Aime wrote: > > My plan was to tackle this by making the UI pluggable, but still pure > java. Pure Java... wow ! Do you plan to write your mark-up using servlets ? ;) > That is, each module has its own configuration UI module, if you > don't want to use it, don't include its jar and yo

[Geoserver-devel] Build failed in Hudson: geoserver-1.6.x #212

2008-05-08 Thread jdeolive
See http://gridlock.openplans.org:8080/hudson/job/geoserver-1.6.x/212/changes -- [...truncated 17 lines...] [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] Reactor build order: [INFO] GeoServer 1.6.x [INFO] GeoServer Maven Plugins [INFO] Plugins configuration

[Geoserver-devel] Build failed in Hudson: geoserver-1.6.x #211

2008-05-08 Thread jdeolive
See http://gridlock.openplans.org:8080/hudson/job/geoserver-1.6.x/211/changes -- [...truncated 17 lines...] [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] Reactor build order: [INFO] GeoServer 1.6.x [INFO] GeoServer Maven Plugins [INFO] Plugins configuration

Re: [Geoserver-devel] Planning

2008-05-08 Thread Andrea Aime
Saul Farber ha scritto: > I agree with Luca on this one. I think "eating our own dog-food" is the > surest and best way to properly develop and constantly test the REST > api. Plus it puts all gui's on a level playing field. > > FlexJSON + the config back-end + REST for configuration would seem