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Juha,

> Let me know.

Of cource, I will.
The prototype needs more than two weeks at least.
Please stay tune here.

Regards,
Miki

Juha,

Although my prototype hasn't finished yet, I'd like to show you how much I did in last several days.

Please take a look at the screen shots:

MBean Views with Mozilla XUL:
http://homepage2.nifty.com/neverbird/jbossmxui/jbossmxui1.jpg
http://homepage2.nifty.com/neverbird/jbossmxui/jbossmxui2.jpg

The preliminary package:
http://homepage2.nifty.com/neverbird/jbossmxui/jbossmxui-20020526.zip

Miki

>That is great!

Thanks.

>XUL turned out to be pretty useful then?

I guess so, but I should learn it more and more for the correct answer.

This is a first time for me to make a XUL script.
Thanks to a good XUL tutorial at www.xulplanet.com, I could add to a new XUL syle file in a few hours while my wife and daughter went out this day.

I desire to make an explore-like MBean GUI using this framework. The MBean list would be displayed on a tree view instead of the simple HTML list. The function menu would be placed on the top of the explorer.

When we select an MBean on the tree, we could popup a context menu and select 'property' item to open the MBean view. The 'start' and 'stop' would be good candidates for the menu items for administration use.

Besides, javadoc integration(i.e. links to javadoc or tool tips from javadoc) and internationalization are other attractive themes.

Miki

> david already did some work with xdoclet that allows
> you to mark up javadocs and generates a xmbean schema
> out of it. I think it is probably easy to extract the
> javadoc text for an operation for example, and slap
> it as part of the model mbeans descriptor which can
> then be displayed in the mbean view.
>
> What do you think?

I've never used the david's xdoclet mbean extension but your idea sounds good and effective.

Nobody wants to write same descriptors on different places.
The javadoc on one hand and the XMBean XML file on the other.
The presentationString also might be integrated into javadoc comment.

But I'm working on the framework itself and have many things to do for basic part.
I'll think about the javadoc integration later.

Miki