Larry, On 8/26/13 4:10 PM, Larry Shatzer, Jr. wrote: > I was playing around with making the manager page look a bit more modern. > (I see bug 55383, which is kinda related)... > > I whipped up a proof of concept with a static HTML page, using Bootstrap. I > put it up on github, if anyone wanted to take a look: > https://github.com/larrys/tomcat-manager-bootstrap > > I'm not a bootstrap/css guy, and just copied an example bootstrap template, > and some of the areas on the page need a bit of work. I just wanted to get > a quick proof of concept, and solicet feedback before I spent a lot of time > on it.
Would you be willing to produce some patches for Tomcat? (Either that or teach me how to take stuff from github and apply it to Tomcat sources). Note that the manager application really should not have any external dependencies (e.g. Bootstrap source files loaded remotely) so we may need to include some of their sources (yay! AL2.0!), or structure things so that they look okay out of the box, but great if you install the Bootstrap stuff yourself. The reason we can't just refer to twitter.com/bootstrap/main.js (or whatever) is because not everyone exposes their Tomcat installation to the Internet. > I was also wondering if there was a reason why the manager servlet has the > HTML inlined in the Java code, instead of using JSPs? As dumb as it sounds this was probably done to limit the number of moving parts in the manager application. IMHO, the manager application (nay, all Tomcat-bundled applications) should be an example of clean design and implementation using the appropriate technologies at hand. -chris
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
