Re: [Geoserver-users] [Geoserver-devel] Some considerations on WEB-UI modularization

[Jody G. <jga...@re...>]

Chris Holmes wrote:
> Yeah, I think most everyone agrees with this thought.  Have a core 
> config that's really easy to develop against, so that it becomes easy 
> to swap in and out configuration clients.  Note that the current set 
> up is actually highly decoupled, to the point of going a bit too far.  
> But I think we've learned lessons on how to keep it decoupled and make 
> it easier to maintain.
I would point out that the widget based approach would actually tightly 
couple the config and web application - aka the web application would 
need to learn to respond to events sent over from the
client widgets.  It would be interesting to see how pure this split is, 
and if it could be managed via an API.

Andrea dare I ask how model to client notification is handled?
> I'd also posit that we should redo the config before we do the web 
> admin tool.  I think/hope that getting the config in order will make 
> it easier for us to build out the web admin tool.
See the planned Preference Model, but seriously we should try this out 
with new modules first.
Jody