Re: Web-/Server Management Tool with GWT

Hi any,

Pretty big project to start with :).

I think you're looking at it wrong as the main task will be to handle
all the configuration for the server services, and GWT can only
provide the user interface. All the background server work has to
happen on the server, and GWT only runs on the client. First you
should decide what to use on the server side, then decide what to use
for the client.

Also I think you're trying to reimplement the wheel, there are a lot
of projects that already do some of the things you want. You should
check out:
- Zentyal (http://www.zentyal.org/) - nice gui for server management
on Ubuntu
- Sme Server (http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_Page) - same for CentOS
- there are others but these two I have used.
There are a lot on man years spent on developing these projects, and
as they are open source you can contribute / branch them.

Regards,
Ioan

On Jul 30, 11:27 am, any_nickname <ad...@myweb24.ch> wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I'm in charge of all the websites and web-plattforms in our company.
> To make my and others life (maybe :-)) easier, I'm planning a kind of
> web- and server management tool with GWT for our company.
> I've read the whole GWT-Docs and at the moment I'm reading "Essential
> GWT" by Federico Kereki.
> Somehow I have some difficulties getting into the whole GWT-
> stuff... :-)
>
> Therefore I wanted to ask you, what you think about my plans and if
> you have any suggestions on how to approach this. Also I'm interested
> in suggestions, on how you would split up the "modules".
> In addition, there are a few functionalities I'm not even sure, if
> they are possible to implement.
>
> The tool should do the following:
> - I thought of the following layout:
> --> The tool could be split up into modules.
> --> An "overall tool" is responsible for user authentication and
> management and for "embedding" each of the modules. Also the settings
> of each module are configured within the "overall tool".
>
> - The following "modules" I want to implement:
> --> an already existing project management tool I wrote in PHP (this
> I'm going to "translate" it into Java/GWT)
> --> a calendar where each user can also share appointments with other
> users
> --> a task-tool (users can also share tasks)
> --> we are using Microsoft Hosted Exchange - do you know, if it is
> possible to make the HEX-Account accessible from within this tool? I
> mean, the user would safe his credentials to the database and then,
> each time, he logs in to the tool, he will be also authenticated to
> HEX and he can access his E-Mails from the tool (without the need of
> loading/authenticating another Website). I know, saving these
> credentials to the database isn't really secure (maybe there are more
> secure ways to do this).
> --> Server Status: in this module I'd like to see different
> information about the (Debian-)server, the tool is running on (like
> CPU load, available memory, running services). And also the
> possibility to start and stop some services (like Mail, FTP, Apache,
> MySQL, etc.). In a future more advanced version, I could also imagine
> registering all our servers and seeing their status.
> --> module to manage one of our plattforms run on TYPO3 (nothing big,
> just making DB-entries for a particular TYPO3-Extension)
> --> Manage FTP-Users (PureFTP-Server)
>
> The aim of the whole thing is also to provide a system, where a single
> login is needed for all.
>
> I'm curious about your comments.
>
> Greets

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