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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 08:43:00 -0500

I've seen this item mentioned before, I just want to add my +1 to it:

- Ability to deploy an archive then tweak the deployment descriptors and
ANY file in there (such as custom xml config, .properties files etc)
without having to use NetBeans Package Deployment Wizard or having to do
it by hand.


Ryan



Ryan de Laplante wrote:
> - 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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