[GERONIMO-4950] Improve usability of Geronimo Console

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: console
• Security Level: public (Regular issues)
• Assignee: Chi Runhua
• Reporter: Chi Runhua
• Created: 11/Nov/09 07:46
• Updated: 26/Oct/10 01:22
• Resolved: 26/Oct/10 01:22

Description

1. re-structure the navigation tree to make it collapsible, the tree level should be less than 3;
2. re-organize the available tree items into new groups, here is a sample list for implementation:

• Application Server
  • Geronimo Kernel (put Information, Java System Info, Thread Pool and Shutdown portlets in the same page here)
  • Web Server
  • JMS Server
  • EJB Server
  • Derby server
  • New server assembly
• Applications
  • Deploy New (Suggest to merge in the plan creator, so that users can either choose to use an existing plan file, or create a new one using the wizard)
  • User applications (merge WAR, EAR and Client, maybe bundles in the 3.0?)
  • Plugins
• Resources
  • DB pools
  • JMS Resources
  • J2EE Connectors
  • Jar aliases
  • Repository
• Security
  • Users and Groups
  • Keystores
  • Certificate Authority
  • Security Realms
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting
  • Monitoring
  • Logs(Include server logs and Derby log)
  • Debug Views
    • JMX Viewer
    • Classloader Viewer
    • JNDI Viewer
    • Dependency Viewer

3. re-construct the available portlets to improve embedded assistance information, for example, show breadcrum when user is working on a task; reduce in-line text on the current UI, and use hover-help or pop-up help page only when necessary etc...
4. for the long list on the current UI such as system modules, only show the most frequently used ones, use locate/find to display more....

Risks to be noticed for UI changes:
1. Doc
2. Testsuite especially for Selenium test script, if any.

For more details, see hhttp://apache-geronimo.328035.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Reorg-of-Admin-Console-for-2-2-td400707.html#a400707
Further discussion on navigation items, see http://apache-geronimo.328035.n3.nabble.com/Re-categorize-the-items-in-navigation-pane-for-G2-2-td370812.html#a370812

Issue Links

• relates to: GERONIMO-5089 Reorganize the Geronimo console and rebase on Pluto 2.

Sub-Tasks

• To support multiple level navigation tree in geronimo web console.: Closed
• History.back and History.forward is not working correctly after change the console navigation to ajax.: Closed
• The portlets page in iframe height is limited in debug view, so that some content is not visible when expanding the tree in debug view.: Closed
• Fix console-testsuite for Geroniom-4950 change: Closed
• Update console related docs for geronimo-4950 change: Closed