+1, I think a webui would be much better..
Bye, Norman 2010/3/15 Bernd Fondermann <bernd.fonderm...@googlemail.com>: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:41, Adrian A. <a.adrian.t...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> - I also vote for an administration Web UI (maybe using GWT like we do >>> in Hupa or integrating with it). >> >> While I understand the general direction toward Web UIs, I proposed the list >> of projects with Swing UI's + JNLP for several pragmatic reasons: >> - Swing is already available everywhere Java is, so no need for extra JARs. >> (IMHO JAMES already has too many dependencies). >> - It is very very easy and fast to use a good GUI builder to achieve the >> above UIs, so it would be more suitable for student projects like this to be >> able to have something really usable until the deadline. >> This is important considering how few of the past GSOC projects made it back >> into the projects base (and remained only forgotten "experiments"). >> - The effect is the same as with a Web UI (but the result is available >> faster): platform independent, and accessible over HTTP (with JNLP). Also >> note there's no heavy loading and huge concurrence in such a UI (only a few >> users). >> >> The most important part is for the admins/owners (that are not expert >> programmers) to be able to achieve their tasks, and thus to adopt JAMES. >> >> Adrian. >> P.S. If it were about Web UIs I would have proposed the use of Apache Click >> Framework in first place: >> http://click.apache.org/ >> Since it's much easier to learn and use, so a student would have been >> productive in a matter of days. > > Many mail servers run headless in a lights out datacenter. > The probability that I'd ever be able to use a Swing-James-Admin UI is > very very small. > > And I think you're not right saying that every Java comes with Swing, BTW. > > Bernd > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org
