[mashup-dev] mashup screens

[sumedha rubasinghe]

Dear Thilina,
The screens look more like portal pages to me. ( defined by JSR 168 [1], 
Another version of portal specification is being developed in par with 
web 2.0 concepts.)

IMHO You do not have to implement this kind of UI. There are many open 
source portal servers available.
Liferay [2] is one such leading open source portal server. Please see 
the attached image I created out of their demo site. You will see many 
fundamental similarities between this & Amal's pages.

Apache has two portal server implementations called 'Pluto' [3] & 
'Jetspeed' [4]. Jboss also has a  portal server implementation [5].

Widgets in Amal's screenshots are analogous to 'Portlets' in portal 
server.  The developers write portlets & portal server deals with 
portlet life cycle management, layout, themes, etc...

You can even load a portlet using data from a web service. (WS-RP [6])
I think Liferay is also working on a Meshup solution [7].

I have an instance of liferay running, if you want to get a closer look.

[1] http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/review/jsr168/
[2] http://www.liferay.com
[3] http://portals.apache.org/pluto/
[4] http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-1/
[5] http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossportal/?prjlist=false
[6] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp
[7] http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/mesh

/sumedha



Thilina Gunarathne wrote:
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> Hi all,
> We had a small discussion yesterday regarding the UI for the mashup
> tool.. We decided to deviate a bit from the look and feel of our other
> products (ESB, WSAS)..
>
> Our initial suggestion is to have a widgets based UI, something similar
> to personalized google home page. The idea is to support a small scale
> UI per mashup service, which can also be referred by a URL so that the
> users can add it to their sites by using URL. As a start these widgets
> can contain some details about the service (State, EPR, URL of the TryIt
> etc..),later we can allow some way for the user to provide it..
>
> Attached are some sketches created by Amal to elaborate the ideas we
> came up with.
>
> ScreenShot01 : Home screen with services listing folded
> Monitor tab bar will provide stats, logs, tracer, etc..
> Screenshot 1 fullscreen: Home screen with full services listing.. (We
> need to come up with some icons for the start|stop)..
> popup: Dialog box for editing & creating the mashups...
>
> Thanks,
> Thilina
>
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