Brian Topping wrote: > > On Nov 1, 2005, at 1:04 AM, Chen Shaopeng wrote: > >> My goal is to develop web admin console, based on apache, to >> replace the current combo of admin server and java admin >> console. > > > Once things are ported over to Apache, there won't be any need for a > JRE embedded in the distribution. I'm not sure of the details why > Netscape needs this, but it has obvious implications for cross- platform > compatibility. Java is a very accessible and robust platform for > development, but the JRE needs are specialized per installation. > Tomcat uses the systemwide JRE for functionality, so there is no > technical need to replace Java in the system once things are running > with a standard Tomcat install. > > If you are interested in replacing Java because you don't like Java > programming, that's a different story :-) > No, we don't want to replace the admin console just because it is developed in Java. We actually do a lot of Java programming, from Eclipse plugins to j2ee stuff, and we love it. Actually, we even consider using Tomcat as the admin server. The only thing we'd like to have is a clean separation of the directory server and the admin server (along with the console), and have the admin server and console run on other platforms such as Windows (yeah I know... :) ns-httpd is nice and all (which we used to develop on a few years ago), but the king of http server is apache. And it is much easier for us to find developers :) > What if you were able to program the new interface you propose in your > language of choice, integrated against the existing RPC interfaces? > That way both front-ends could be supported. For my own part in it, > one of the attractors to this project is the use of Java, and I look > forward to expanding the UI with it. I would be discouraged if the > Java console and all manners of supporting it were completely removed > from the system. > > Brian > rgds csp -- Chen Shaopeng http://www.idsignet.com
