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["GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>]

Chris,

This looks excellent!

I did have a few problems getting it to run locally, but got there in the 
end:

1) The build.xml menu isn't quite in sync with the target names - grouper 
vs grouperJarAndConf
2) The build.xml doesn't actually compile anything or copy property files 
to 'classes'. I assume Eclipse is doing this for you.
3) I had to look at the video to figure out the url - a top level index 
file which redirects would be useful.
4) When you 'Change location' you are listing all groups and not actually 
filtering on what the user has typed.

When I get a chance I'll try and get it to run in the current UI. Going 
forward I can see us using more of this approach, but I would like to 
retain some of the flexibility for choosing custom templates etc. Also, I 
can see it being pragmatic to incrementally change the current UI rather 
than attempt a complete rewrite in one go. I haven't looked at the code in 
any great detail but I'm sure we can come up with something that suits us 
both.

Gary




--On 05 August 2009 02:43 -0400 Chris Hyzer 
<>
 wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I decided I don't like any business logic written in Javascript, so the
> idea of plain old web services for a UI was scrapped.  I adopted an
> improved version of an ajax library we use at Penn, which lets you
> control the screen from Java, without javascript (the framework uses
> javascript, but no additional javascript is needed for business logic).
> It makes writing ajax applications very easy.  It still uses web services
> but they are UI specific.
>
> Anyways, I made a screen movie so you can see the progress.  Note you
> need the free xvid codec:
>
> https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/download/attachments/4588063/groupU
> pdateLiteUi.avi
>
> There is still work to do.  Hopefully I will wrap it up soon.  Lets think
> about if we want to put it in with the existing UI.  I think it will fit
> quite nicely after a couple tweaks to get the library versions to match.
>
> I updated the description and added some coding samples here:
>
> https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Grouper+update+me
> mberships+lite+UI
>
> Regards,
> Chris



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GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing