[wildfly-dev] Management console web application

[Jason Greene]

> On Dec 10, 2014, at 9:28 AM, Dev Ops <devopsmoreorless at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Brian Stansberry <brian.stansberry at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12/10/14, 5:14 AM, Dev Ops wrote:
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> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Harald Pehl <hpehl at redhat.com
> > <mailto:hpehl at redhat.com>> wrote:
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> >>     Am 09.12.2014 um 12:42 schrieb Dev Ops <devopsmoreorless at gmail.com
> >>     <mailto:devopsmoreorless at gmail.com>>:
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> >>     Hi,
> >>     thanks for pointing me to the github repo.
> >>
> >>     I need to do a couple of things:
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> >>      1. provide a graphical and complete view of all server-groups -
> >>         along with the hosts - something like the following
> >>         http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/1062288
> >     That's something we've always wanted to have in the console.
> >     Currently the console has some weak points when it comes to manage
> >     big domains with lots of hosts and servers. Some kind of bird's-eye
> >     view for big topologies would definitely be an improvement.
> >>
> >>      2. provide a button to download the deployed application;
> >     Not sure what's the use case behind that. Maybe you can elaborate
> >     more on that.
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> > Most of the time I "operate" in environments and situation where there
> > is NOT an artifact repository.
> > People merely know the existence of words like CI, CD and so on, thus
> > before upgrading a web-application they need to back it up.
> > Having a button next to the application can be handy.
> >
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> Supporting this would require some server-side functionality, as we
> don't expose the content in the content repository via the management
> API. It would probably be pretty simple to do though, using the
> attach-a-stream-to-a-response thing we've added in 9. Used now by the
> log download feature.
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> Great! Thus implementing a download-content button should be pretty straightforward.
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> Dates for WF 9.0.0.Final? More or less... :-)
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Great question. I am looking to rearrange the scope of 9 so that it can ship in Q1 next year; expect to see an email soon. I’d like to ship the beta end of Jan.

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Jason T. Greene
WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
JBoss, a division of Red Hat