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Re: COMMUNITY HELP: GlassFish V3 admin console improvements

From: Ryan de Laplante <ryan_at_ijws.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:06:43 -0500

- I would like to be able to flush connection pools. For example, when
I re-deploy a JCA connector, I think it leaves the active connections in
the pool until they time out. I have to restart the app server to flush
them. Next I deploy a .war web service that exposes the JCA connector.
Since JAX-WS's wsgen runs on redeploy, I need to make sure that I have
restarted the app server after installing the new JCA connector.

- I'd also like to be able to use the web service testing tools for web
services on https, that use http basic authentication, and other forms
of security. Monitoring too. Right now those tools don't work for me
because I use HTTP BASIC authentication + SSL on a different http
listener to keep them off of the Internet.

- There's a bug on the login screen when you enter the wrong password.
The screen reloads and renders incorrectly (you can tell just by looking
at it). I created a ticket for it before 9.1 was released.

- Whenever I redeploy it asks me to pick a file then press OK. After
pressing OK there is *no indication whatsoever* that it is doing
anything. I've learned to just leave it for a few seconds or longer
while it does something behind the scenes and completes. I think this
is a usability issue.

- I've done things related to virtual servers that require a restart or
else it doesn't work correctly such as virtual server configuration,
changing which virtual servers an app is using, etc. and the admin UI
doesn't tell me I need to restart. I've had enough problems with this
that I restart fairly frequently while reconfiguring and redeploying new
versions just in case.

- I find the admin GUI slow in general. Is it making a bunch of JMX
calls under the hood?

- Some graphs of usage and performance statistics like I've seen in
demos of other app servers.



John Clingan wrote:
> With GlassFish V3, ease of use is a primary requirement, and this
> includes the administration console. What user interface improvements
> would *you* like to see in the administration console?
>
> Some thoughts:
> We are looking to scale a DAS to support many more clusters and
> instances. Significantly growing the number of managed "things"
> makes navigation more difficult.
> * Menu Bar
> * Improved tree navigation
> * User tagging of UI
>
> Would you like to see more wizards? If so, wizards to accomplish which
> tasks?
>
> Thanks.
>
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