[mashup-dev] mashup screens

[Sanjiva Weerawarana]

Hi Sumedha,

I agree that each service is very much like a portlet. What we want 
however is for each service's UI to be the portlet. Each widget is really 
driving the service using AJAX + our wsclient javascript code.

I'm familiar with WS-RP but am not at all a fan of it .. but I'd like to 
understand your perspective of it more.

Sanjiva.

sumedha rubasinghe wrote:
> 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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