[mashup-dev] Mashup editor prototype.

[Davanum Srinivas]

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I love it! makes it real easy to get folks started. especially when they look at an existing service and try to make one
up themselves and still gives enough flexibility to power users to make their changes w/o the UI getting in the way.

thanks,
dims

Jonathan Marsh wrote:
> I keep hearing from you all how important editing UIs are.  I'm still not
> sure I believe it - I think users move quickly from constrained UI to full
> text.  But to explore this a little further, I created a pre-prototype of an
> editor that structures the javascript source into function blocks and global
> or local  annotations.  The annotations can then be edited in a more
> constrained fashion - in this case through a forms interface.  Such an
> interface makes the annotations more discoverable, and provides people help
> with creating high-quality annotations.  Yet the result can be fairly easily
> parsed from arbitrary user source, edited, and serialized back out as
> Javascript.
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> For instance, right now the parameter types are exposed as a drop down of
> some built-in schema types,  but I could imagine extending this to simple
> custom types like enumerations and facets such as length and pattern.  I can
> imagine extending the documentation annotation to a rich text editor, making
> it easy to use simple styling, add hyperlinks, and so forth.
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> The page is at http://wso2.org/repos/wso2/people/jonathan/mashup-editor.html
> (Sorry, IE only at this point since it's a mix of Javascript, HTML, XML,
> XSLT, and XPath - a useful integrated environment only available in IE).
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> Jonathan Marsh -  <http://www.wso2.com> http://www.wso2.com -
> <http://auburnmarshes.spaces.live.com> http://auburnmarshes.spaces.live.com
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Davanum Srinivas (dims at wso2.com)
Co-Founder & Director, Customer Engagements, WSO2 (http://wso2.com)
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