Future plans of admin web GUI

[shade]

What are the future plans about the admin web GUI (OPSI Editor) ? Think as it gets harder to use Java in browsers, Chrome has stoped it and the default (Edge) browser in Windows 10 also wont use Java.

Plans for a move to HTML5 or something else ?

Regards

[r.roeder]

Hi shade,

thank your for your friendly inquiry, I will try to answer.

What are the future plans about the admin web GUI (OPSI Editor):

First, please observe that the OPSI editor (completely the same code) is as well distributed as a stand alone application, and this is running more stable than when started via a browser (we all suffer from the complexities of the java integration - by the way, the javascript in the opsi server web page did not run in MS Explorer for many years).

Second, a "move" to HTML 5 is rather an euphemism for a big task for a yet small crew.

We are an open source company where it is not so easy to, like M$ would (perhaps) do, just throw away ten years of coding (resulting in about 450 java classes and nearly 10000 lines of code) and start it with a couple of new programmers all over again with the next technology. Nevertheless, we agree that the present web technologies are not only widely accepted but offer indeed better approaches for creating flexible guis than the now "ancient" java applet systems. Therefore we will certainly look how we can evolve our administrative software, Perhaps we could create a new HTML 5 based GUI for the most important tasks. At any rate, the problem is not the HTML 5 but the complex Javascript client which would have to retrieve and prepare the data. Perhaps, we should redefine our architecture and rethink the cooperation of web service and administration client ..

Regards,

Rupert

[SisterOfMercy]

So next time code in COBOL!

Oh well, Java is the new COBOL, so don't worry.

Chrome has turned of NPAPI support by default, but you can still enable this: https://java.com/en/download/faq/chrome.xml

[shade]

Hi,

I forgot about the stand-alone app, that we allready use since it seems quicker and more stable (in my defense I been home recovering after a operation, for 3 months).

We will just continue using the stand-alone app.

If you at some point redefine your architecture, it could be a interesting project as an open community to be a part of.

Kind Regards

[shade]

Is there a way to get the stand alone app, out onto a Linux laptop (without the opsi client installed) ?

[SisterOfMercy]

Is there a way to get the stand alone app, out onto a Linux laptop (without the opsi client installed) ?

Uhhh, just use the .jar file?

[shade]

Ok, I thought there were a special stand alone version it installs.

I will just try to copy the jar file from the server.