Wednesday February 25, 2009
Looking for Opinions...
Looking for Opinions...
The GlassFish admin console team has been working hard on ways to simplify our development, while at the same time attempting to improve the experience of using the console. We have created a prototype which shows a couple different designs we are considering -- we'd like your feedback. Here's how you can help:
- Try the working prototype at: http://63.227.208.233:9999/admingui/. This link will not be up long, so try now!
- Post your thoughts to this blog.
Here are some things we are particularly interested in feedback on:
- Do you like (or dislike) the menus?
- Do you like (or dislike) the tree? (Be sure to click the "Toggle Scheme" button.)
- Do you like / dislike the tagging feature? (See first screen shot above.)
Of course all other comments are also welcome (What's missing? What do
you really like? What do you hate? etc.). We know there are many
issues with this UI, it is an early prototype -- far from production
ready. Just a few of the major issues we're aware of:
- Many broken button clicks (particularly posts that don't do a
redirect) - 404 pages cause a loop due to a JSF bug
- Performance -- it's not good right now, it will be MUCH better
when it's not a prototype (note: it also doesn't help that this
prototype is running on a small desktop machine over a DSL-line...
). - Many pages are broken (some intentionally for the public demo,
others are simply not implemented) - List of tagged pages can sometimes show duplicates
- Ajax for updating tags and other portions of the screen is not
implemented - Breadcrumbs do not exist
So... as you can see we're not looking for bugs, but rather general feedback on the navigation and Look-and-Feel. So post your thoughts and help make GlassFish better.
Thanks for taking a look!
Posted by Ken Paulsen ( Feb 25 2009, 02:08:45 PM PST ) Permalink Comments [6]
between the two, I prefer the tree view.
The main reason is that I can navigate between pages faster. Because expanding one node does not collapse others, It also lets me quickly bounce between things. i.e. the jdbc resources and connection pools. Finally, it is also easier to see where I am in the grand scheme of things by looking at the left nav tree.
anyway, my 0.02 worth
Posted by John on February 25, 2009 at 02:55 PM PST #
ad tags: tags are a nice feature, but server administration console is not social network. I will expect that an adminstrator doesn't tags to find pages in the console.
i liked the menu and the tree view and also the toggle cheme feature
Posted by tanase on February 25, 2009 at 03:08 PM PST #
clustering support?
Posted by 211.90.1.34 on February 25, 2009 at 03:49 PM PST #
Cluster support will come and will be supported in the console as soon as v3 has official clustering support. I don't have dates yet on when that will be.
Posted by Ken Paulsen on February 25, 2009 at 04:01 PM PST #
I like the tree view more than menus, but what i would like the most is embedded performance data and links.
For example : Helloworld ( a sparkline goes here showing the performance of app ) [] button like this which shows up actions for webapp start stop restart etc...
Posted by ranjan on February 25, 2009 at 08:37 PM PST #
I like the tree view as gives quick navigation across, certain nodes can be default expanded based on the usage pattern.
Posted by Rahul Mahajan on February 26, 2009 at 09:00 AM PST #