Re: [jboss-as7-dev] AS7 console, RHQ

On 01/11/2011 04:00 AM, Heiko Braun wrote: Yeah. I think it's really kind of crazy to focus on the architecture without having acquired the basic requirements. Before we go picking technologies, we need to know: 1. What information should be presented? Be specific - at least, more specific than "everything". 2. How should the information be organized? In domain mode, maybe multiple tree views (domain->host->server, domain->servergroup->server) depending on what information you're after; per server, maybe a basic tree that's similar to the server model layout? 3. How should the interface flow? For example, perhaps I have a fixed tree view on the left-hand side that I click on to get at other parts of the system. 4. Performance requirements? We ought to stipulate that on 2 or 3 specific test platforms, the UI takes no more than, say, a second or two to fully initialize, and that we take measures to keep assets small so that page load time doesn't become a significantly detrimental factor. 5. How real-time should the interface be? Are UI views updated dynamically as they change on the server, for example? Picking tech before all of these questions are answered is putting the cart before the horse, to say the least. History has shown that considering requirements as a second step has led to failure far more often than not. We need to know what exactly we're trying to accomplish. -- - DML