ESciDoc Admin Tool

eSciDoc Admin Tool

The Admin Tool shall support administrative tasks for eSciDoc infrastructure and solutions. Information on initial implementation available at ESciDoc Admin Tool initial implementation

Requirements

• functions
  • administrate core and solutions
  • create/alter roles
  • control re-cache/re-index

• implementation
  • GUI
    • Style should be easily changeable and be based current solutions. --Haarlaender 15:12, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
  • CLI (?)
    • I don't think this is necessary as an additional abstraction layer. There is still the SOAP and REST interface --Haarlaender 15:12, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
  • plugin interface to extend support for solutions
    • Maybe like a set of managers (one for managing users, one for contexts etc.) with user interfaces that can be "pre-configured". Means certain values are preset by the current solution. --Haarlaender 15:12, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

• check on more light-weight technology esp. for the GUI
• 1&1 GUI widgets
• Groovy, Grails
• GWT - javascript too cryptic, widgets compared to what other FW provide
• javaScript based
• portal/portlets

• todo: evaluation of FWs

Review/Evaluation of appropriate web-frameworks

see also a previous evaluation.

Apache Wicket

http://wicket.apache.org/

• Not very lightweight in my opinion
• Swing-like implementation in Java
• Pro: Pure HTML on view side

Grails

http://www.grails.org

• language: Groovy (runs in JVM)
• Java libraries can easily be used
• First glance: Fast development of easy use-cases with db-sources.
• Provides some UI widgets
• JQuery can be used as "Plugin"
• growing community

Apache Cocoon

http://cocoon.apache.org/

XForms

• W3C recommendation
• Specification is not supported by most webbrowsers (needs special plugins)
• Some solutions try to bypass this problem by transforming XForms into Javascript on server side (e.g. http://chibaxforms.org/)
• Anyway, Chiba and other demos do not work with my Firefox 3.5 browser.
• Not a suitable solution

Enhanced Scientific Documentation

Graphical User Interface

Coordinated Universal Time

Simple Object Access Protocol

Representational State Transfer

Open Source and Most Widely Used Web Server

Hypertext Markup Language

World Wide Web Consortium