Bug 779343 (SOA-1732) - Usability of SOA5 Console
Summary: Usability of SOA5 Console
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: SOA-1732
Product: JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5
Classification: JBoss
Component: unspecified
Version: 5.0.0 ER5
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
: 5.0.0 ER7
Assignee: caius
QA Contact:
URL: http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/SOA...
Whiteboard:
Depends On: SOA-1683 SOA-1733 SOA-1734 SOA-1735 SOA-1736 SOA-1748 SOA-1749 SOA-1750 SOA-1901
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-12-18 15:20 UTC by Burr Sutter
Modified: 2010-02-03 21:04 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-02-03 21:04:46 UTC
Type: Task
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
SOA_Platform_Console.jpg (90.07 KB, image/jpeg)
2009-12-18 15:21 UTC, Burr Sutter
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JBossWS_Services.jpg (86.34 KB, image/jpeg)
2009-12-18 15:21 UTC, Burr Sutter
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WSDL.jpg (114.96 KB, image/jpeg)
2009-12-18 15:21 UTC, Burr Sutter
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WSDL_in_tab.jpg (110.18 KB, image/jpeg)
2009-12-18 15:21 UTC, Burr Sutter
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Login_Screen_Orange.jpg (75.79 KB, image/jpeg)
2009-12-18 16:21 UTC, Burr Sutter
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Available_Cut_Off.jpg (140.20 KB, image/jpeg)
2009-12-18 16:28 UTC, Burr Sutter
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Vertical_Scrolling.jpg (136.60 KB, image/jpeg)
2009-12-18 16:42 UTC, Burr Sutter
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jUDDI_Console_Fonts.jpg (101.79 KB, image/jpeg)
2009-12-18 16:55 UTC, Burr Sutter
no flags Details


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 779294 0 high CLOSED New layout in ER5 console only uses 50% of screen - lots of unused space - user must scroll horizontally in the space we... 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 779315 0 high CLOSED Tomcat tab on console 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 779356 0 high CLOSED New console layout in ER6 inlcudes "more" option to view Tomcat, Web Console, but stil does utilize the full page 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker SOA-1732 0 None None None Never

Internal Links: 779294 779315 779356

Description Burr Sutter 2009-12-18 15:20:40 UTC
Date of First Response: 2009-12-18 12:25:25
project_key: SOA

A few screenshots will be attached.

Issues:
1)  There are a variety of fonts in use in the console
2)   The SOA Platform font choice is particularly awkward (is it Comic Sans?)
3)  "JUDDI" should be "jUDDI" (http://ws.apache.org/juddi/) - in this case, we can just call it "Registry"
4) "JBossWs" should be "JBossWS"  (http://labs.jboss.com/jbossws/) - in this case, we can just call it "Web Services" or "WS"
5) The use of DIVs and Javascript for the individual consoles make it difficult to find the direct URLs to the console - it is confusing.  

Look at the JBossWs console as an example (screenshots will be uploaded).
The end-user first opens their browser and types in "http://localhost:8080"
Then the select JBossWs link, the url changes to "http://localhost:8080/#" this means I am not sure where I navigated to, but the fact that I need to login each time to each of the menu-items does tell me that I went some place else.
The user then has to click on "View a list of deployed services" and then the actual WS endpoint.

What I wanted (as the user) was the URL to the actual WSDL for my WS endpoint, so I can feed that WSDL back into Visual Studio or soapUI, in order to get the WSDL URL, I need to copy & paste it from the body of the WSDL (near th body) OR I need to right-click and choose Open Link in New Tab.

Bottom line, I prefer the SOA-P 4.3 way of handling this navigation.  The DIV which acts like an IFrame hides too many of the important details like the actual URL associated with each individual web app/console.   The colors & fonts do not match up well so it is a bit disjointed, obviously different consoles.

Comment 1 Burr Sutter 2009-12-18 15:21:25 UTC
Attachment: Added: SOA_Platform_Console.jpg
Attachment: Added: JBossWS_Services.jpg
Attachment: Added: WSDL.jpg


Comment 2 Burr Sutter 2009-12-18 15:21:47 UTC
Attachment: Added: WSDL_in_tab.jpg


Comment 3 Burr Sutter 2009-12-18 16:21:08 UTC
The Login Screen uses Orange which does not match with the red & gray color scheme.


Comment 4 Burr Sutter 2009-12-18 16:21:08 UTC
Attachment: Added: Login_Screen_Orange.jpg


Comment 5 Burr Sutter 2009-12-18 16:28:33 UTC
The word "Available" is cut off by the internal framing of the ESB/AS Admin Embedded Console. 

Comment 6 Burr Sutter 2009-12-18 16:28:33 UTC
Attachment: Added: Available_Cut_Off.jpg


Comment 7 Burr Sutter 2009-12-18 16:42:48 UTC
Missing vertical scroll bar for WSDL, can not see all of the content

Comment 8 Burr Sutter 2009-12-18 16:42:48 UTC
Attachment: Added: Vertical_Scrolling.jpg


Comment 9 Burr Sutter 2009-12-18 16:55:10 UTC
More odd fonts demonstrated  by jUDDI console.

Comment 10 Burr Sutter 2009-12-18 16:55:10 UTC
Attachment: Added: jUDDI_Console_Fonts.jpg


Comment 11 Len DiMaggio 2009-12-18 17:17:39 UTC
Link: Added: This issue is related to SOA-1682


Comment 12 Len DiMaggio 2009-12-18 17:19:16 UTC
Link: Added: This issue is related to SOA-1703


Comment 13 Len DiMaggio 2009-12-18 17:25:25 UTC
There are multiple issues in the JIRA - splitting them up into sub-tasks

Comment 14 Len DiMaggio 2009-12-18 17:32:24 UTC
Link: Added: This issue depends SOA-1683


Comment 15 Ryan Zhang 2009-12-21 04:10:46 UTC
Have already been fixed at ER6

Comment 16 Len DiMaggio 2009-12-21 20:09:02 UTC
Link: Added: This issue related SOA-1746


Comment 17 Ryan Zhang 2009-12-22 03:02:16 UTC
Sorry, I am afraid some issue have not catch up with the roll of ER6, will be in next release.

Comment 18 Ryan Zhang 2009-12-28 09:35:43 UTC
Discussion has been make on Dec 23. And new UI is available to accept review.
Please download the internal release at http://jawa05.englab.brq.redhat.com/miscellaneous/soa-5.0.0-newUI/ to have a look.

It shall be include in next release.

Thanks
Ryan


Comment 19 Len DiMaggio 2010-02-03 21:04:46 UTC
Closing this JIRA - the one remaining open subtask is minor and will not be resolved for 5.0 GA


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