FYI, I’ve merged the current Central/HTML5 rework to jbosstools-central master.

This means you can see the new Central in action after installing the latest nightly build from http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/mars/ 

It’s far from being complete, but you’ll at least get a taste of what’s to come in JBT 4.3/JBDS 9.

What works :

- Central is now an html5 page maintained at  https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central-webpage 

- the page is served from a swt browser widget (using webkit under the hood).

- about 220 quickstarts are available as of today (some target eap 6.3, other target 6.4)

- search is craaazy fast, as it is local to the webpage (no round trips to dcp server)

- it’s fast to load and scales better in small windows, compared to the existing version.

- proxy wizards are injected to search results

- external links are opened in a browser window

- JBoss Buzz results visible as carousel under the title

- early access label displayed according to EA settings (UI to be reviewed)

- you can build https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central-webpage locally (after installing node and grunt-cli) and test it by starting Eclipse with -Djboss.central.webpage.url=file:///path/to/jbosstools-central-webpage/target/jbosstools-central-webpage-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.zip or -Djboss.central.webpage.url=/path/to/jbosstools-central-webpage/target/gruntbuild.

What doesn’t work :

- for some reason I just broke the quickstart integration, which used to work, I swear. Will fix it on Monday

- current webpage is served directly from http://central-fredapp.rhcloud.com/, I need to get https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central-webpage built from Jenkins and deployed to Nexus. At least that gives us some good flexibility in terms of maintenance.

- search engine uses staging dcpbeta-searchisko.rhcloud.com/ service, instead of dcp.jboss.org

- The development workflow isn’t finalized yet. I need to set up and tune grunt watch, so that changes in html/js/sass can be picked up directly from eclipse.

- title still too big, needs to scale down

- offline mode is not supported (both for central and the quickstarts, groovy script not update yet)

- quickstarts not integrated to the existing project examples wizard

- legacy examples are not displays in the results, yet.

- project requirements not inferred yet (from existing metadata?)

- project tags should be added

- maybe find another default icon for quickstarts.

- layout needs to be tuned (needs to scale on 3 cols, instead of 4 and 2 currently)

- needs some tabzilla-like button (see the red hat at top right of http://tools.jboss.org/) to display show on startup

- APIs are in still unstable, expect them to break.

-  you might notice some slight font flickering, due to the carousel script. I tried to minimize it but it’s still visible in the search bar’s hint text

- many other small stuff that are missing, that I can’t think of right now.

So, give it a try, we’d be happy to hear some feedback, good or bad, ideas to make it better (JIRA is your friend).

Fred