[infinispan-dev] Infinispan Server Console

[Manik Surtani]

On 29 Apr 2013, at 13:47, Alan Santos <asantos at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Apr 29, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Tristan Tarrant <ttarrant at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 04/29/2013 02:39 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:
>>> On 29 Apr 2013, at 11:29, Tristan Tarrant <ttarrant at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 04/29/2013 11:56 AM, Manik Surtani wrote:
>>>>> On 29 Apr 2013, at 10:28, Tristan Tarrant <ttarrant at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am about to create a new project under the Infinispan GitHub umbrella:
>>>>>> infinispan-server-console.
>>>>>> This will be an extension to the standard AS/EAP console that allows
>>>>>> configuration and management of the remote protocol endpoints. Currently
>>>>>> the code is very simple and doesn't do much, but hey, release early
>>>>>> release often.
>>>>> As in, the GUI console?
>>>>> 
>>>> The very same.
>>> Why do we need this?  Isn't it duplication of functionality that JON/RHQ provides?
>> JON/RHQ give you a mostly read-only interface (attributes) and commands 
>> (operations), but it doesn't really give you a flexible way to modify 
>> the configuration (creating caches, adding cache stores, adding 
>> endpoints, etc)
> 
> 
> Why not? That's probably the top requested feature for the JON plugin. 

Right.  I'd rather we enhance the JON/RHQ plugin to do this rather than to start on Yet Another Console.  Are there any limitations to enhancing the JON/RHQ plugin?

- M

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