Re: [architecture] [Fwd: Re: GUI toolkit question]

[Jerome Moroy <Jerome.Moroy@xxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

The graphical tool Browser is a framework that provides one way to
build monitoring and management console. For the moment, it only allows
to build Swing application, but we will also study the creation of
monitoring console in SWT.

So, the integration (or not) of this framework in your graphical tools
mainly depends on the purpose of those tools. That means for instance
that if the concern of this tool is to navigate through a deployment
architecture, then, this framework seems to be an interesting way to
build your tool.

Here is some related links concerning the Browser Framework:
- Description and a simple tutorial:
http://openccm.objectweb.org/doc/0.8.1/browser_plugin.html
- Configuration
descriptor: http://openccm.objectweb.org/doc/0.8.1/browser_dtd.html
- Example of use:
http://openccm.objectweb.org/doc/0.8.1/administration_console.html

We are open to answer any other questions.

Regards,
Jérôme Moroy.

Christophe Ney wrote:

Hi Frantisek,

Has you probably know, we are lauching a big collaboration with Eclipse,
See http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-webtools/index.html
and I would highly recommand that you explore possible synergy with this 
team.

On the other hand, there were also some graphical tools developped on
top of fractal as part of the work done for openCCM. Could'nt that be
integrated with the deployment tools?

Thanks,
Christophe


  

-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre-Yves Gibello [mailto:pierreyves.gibello@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: mercredi 12 mai 2004 16:49
To: Frantisek Plasil
Cc: deployment@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; architecture@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
tuma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Pavel Jezek; hentynka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [architecture] [Fwd: Re: GUI toolkit question]


Frantisek Plasil wrote:

    

Hello everyone,

in the framework of the OSMOSE/deployment framework,
we think about implementing some graphical tools as a part of our work
on component deployment. A related issue is what GUI toolkit to use.
There are two natural candidates: JFC/Swing and SWT. Does 
ObjectWeb/OSMOSE
have any preference in this area ?

      

XUL is also an alternative, or am I missing something ? (at least if you 
wish to setup things quickly, and run your app in an application server 
context - eg. servlets and a Mozilla client).

Note there is an interesting point of view concerning the choice of 
java-related libraries on http://viva.sourceforge.net/action.html (the 
"boycott swing" tab is rather polemic but they have good arguments and 
list alternatives).

My 2 cents, I'm not involved in Osmose...
Regards,
 Pierre-Yves Gibello - ExperLog