| Review comments from Ed Burns: 2.2 Risks ''The Admin Console will be using the Woodstock components, a JSF
component set. Since this is an unsupported product, the GUI team has
created a branch for our own use and maintains it. It is assumed that
this version will not have major fault that prevents the Admin Console
from utilizing it or spend significant time in maintaining
it. Although we would prefer to use ADF Faces components, they are
unavailable to us due to licensing restrictions.'' If you are going to use the latest JSF targeted for inclusion in 2.1
itself for your JSF runtime, please account for performing qualification
testing of the Admin Console, and Woodstock on that version. Anissa: Thanks for the warning. We will budget time for bugs that may exist in the new version of JSF.
3.2 Justification ''The Admin Console was well received by the community and often viewed
as a differentiator from other similar products in the market. For
GlassFish 3.1, we need to continue to provide to the user this user
friendly administration tool.'' I'd go beyond what you said. Not only do we need to continue to provide
it, but we need to give them somethng more in some way. Perhaps
explicitly state that we'll avoid flashy UI gimmics in favor of solid
Computer Human Interaction based ui design improvements. I know I'm
getting ahead of myself here, but I'd love to see a "type ahead find"
feature like the "/" find in mozilla, except that in the admin gui, the
type ahead find takes you right to the part of the UI you're trying to
access without expanding menus and navigating controls. Anissa: Thats a great suggestion. However we probably will not be able to do this enhancement for 3.1 release. Maybe you can file an RFE so we can consider for after 3.1.
4.4 Out of Scope Because we talked about this at the kickoff meeting, I think it's really
imperative to list "migrate to ADF Faces" as out of scope. I know you
briefly mention it in the "risks" section, but it should be listed as
out of scope as well. You should also list "chef style instance management" as out of scope. Anissa: Not sure what you mean by "chef style instance management". But i have added "migrate to ADF Faces" as out of scope as suggested.
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