Hi to all, my name is Sandro Martini and I'm one of the Developers of Apache Pivot ( http://pivot.apache.org/ ), a RIA Framework. I cross-posted this to our developers list (here in CC) so other Pivot developers can join the discussion.
My post here is to see if someone of Tomcat developers is interested in supporting us making a Console for Tomcat, but instead of usual Web pages, making it as a RIA Applet or an Application (for example deployed via Web Start). Or at least if you think this could be an interesting application for Tomcat. I haven't looked (yet) at Tomcat sources, but I think that probably the way Tomcat published data should be extended for our purposes, for example we are able to read natively xml and also (better choice for us) json formats. Maybe we could add a parameter in our queries asking Tomcat for data published in one of those formats. For security, we already support Basic authentication, and we have a prototype for Digest authentication. Some time ago I've seen an experimental feature like this for the Glassfish 3, but with JavaFX as Client and exchanging data via REST. In detail, I'm thinking on the following features, to see how things looks: - Server Status (standard and also the Full version), a prototype could start to implement this - List Applications There could be also the Tomcat Deployer in RIA version. For a Full Administration Console (I don't see this since a long time) we have to see later, this is complex and requires many features ... Do you think the effort could be interesting also for the Tomcat community ? I hope both projects can collaborate, to start creating a new generation of Web Applications. Thanks for the attention and best regards, Sandro Martini --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
