Re: [Engine-devel] oVirt UI Plugins: Update on current progress
On 07/23/2012 12:40 PM, Vojtech Szocs wrote:
> this implies server side code running on the engine,
Actually, yes and no :) let me explain:
- UI plugins developed in GWT need some context (plugin web application deployed next to
engine.ear) from which their code will be served
it is not supposed to be next to engine.jar, it is supposed to be
somewhere else entirely, served to clients like any static content via a
servelt.
- UI plugin web applications can contain only static resources (HTML
+ generated JavaScript) -> answer is "NO"
- UI plugin web applications can also contain server-side code (e.g. for GWT RPC) ->
answer is "YES"
that's not the scope we discussed so far.
we discussed a 'static' plugin, which can use an external service or the
REST API.
> which has additional implications on compatibility vs. ui plugins as discussed
I don't think we need to worry about this :)
If a GWT UI plugin web application needs to use Engine functionality, it can:
- use REST API from within UI plugin (JavaScript) code [1]
- use REST API from within its server-side (Java) code [2]
again, if we want to discuss an approach to making ui plugins which need
server side cooperation not in a separate container of their own choice,
different server, etc. - we can, but lets separate the discussion on the
two.
[1] - will be supported by UI plugin infrastructure
[2] - not supported by UI plugin infrastructure
Vojtech
----- Original Message -----
From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com>
To: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>, "Einav Cohen"
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Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 9:10:07 AM
Subject: Re: oVirt UI Plugins: Update on current progress
On 07/20/2012 11:37 PM, Vojtech Szocs wrote:
> Last but not least, writing plugins in Google Web Toolkit (GWT) should
> be as easy as providing your own plugin source page. Just deploy your
> GWT plugin application on JBoss AS (next to engine.ear), and point to
> GWT plugin application host page.
this implies server side code running on the engine, which has
additional implications on compatibility vs. ui plugins as discussed so
far which would be java script
(I'm not against using GWT for them if the resulting java script can be
packaged for use as a UI plugin, but sever side code i prefer to be
isolated from engine until we'll define engine plugins).