[wildfly-dev] Next version of the management console (HAL.next)

[Brian Stansberry]

+10. You guys are doing great.

> On Jan 16, 2017, at 3:52 AM, Heiko Braun <hbraun at redhat.com> wrote:
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> I know it’s really challenging to do a major refactoring to support the next major version of GWT, while retaining the critical business logic and UX behind the console. That said, I am really happy to see the team managed to keep the user flows and functional requirements, but elevating the base project kernel to a new and much improved version. Excellent work Harald and the team!
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> Regards, Heiko
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>> On 13 Jan 2017, at 15:52, Harald Pehl <hpehl at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> We're currently working on the next version of the management console
>> (HAL.next [1]). HAL.next continues with the column based navigation
>> which was introduced in WildFly 9. It's also still written in Java and
>> based on GWT. However most parts of the console have been rewritten
>> for several reasons:
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>> - Make use of new features in Java 8 and GWT 2.8 and prepare for GWT 3.0
>> - Introduce new features which were not possible with the old
>> architecture (keyboard navigation, bookmarks, macro recording, ...)
>> - Adopt PatternFly [2]
>> - Cleanup codebase (remove deprecated and unused code)
>> 
>> For more details about the motivation and the complete list of new
>> features see the README at [1].
>> 
>> Development is still ongoing and we plan to replace the existing
>> console with HAL.next in WildFly 11 earliest. We have now reached a
>> milestone where it makes sense to get feedback from a bigger audience.
>> That's why we like to invite everyone to take a look at the new
>> console. Suggestions, ideas, comments and bug reports are welcome.
>> Please use GitHub issues [3] to file issues and discuss enhancements.
>> 
>> To get started, please follow the README [4]. The easiest way is
>> probably to use the docker image at [5]. It contains the latest
>> WildFly 11 build with HAL.next as management console.
>> 
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>> [1] https://github.com/hal/hal.next
>> [2] https://www.patternfly.org/
>> [3] https://github.com/hal/hal.next/issues
>> [4] https://github.com/hal/hal.next#running
>> [5] https://hub.docker.com/r/hpehl/hal-next/
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>> Harald Pehl
>> JBoss by Red Hat
>> http://hpehl.info
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