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

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