Yann’s Blog

I’m giving a small sneak peak at the IRM2 skeleton user interface, just to show you some of the directions I’m taking with it.

Here is the main page.

First things first, the IRM landing page is centered around Users, not Technicians. IRM has been like this since the early introduction of the Request Help functionality, and I wish to continue this tradition. This is only a rough draft, and more work could be done to make components more readable and user friendly. Also, I’m showing off the Tabs (all Tapestry components) and general look, which is all XHTML. Adding in the Lite stylesheet (not yet implemented, but it has a print one) will allow it to be viewable on portable devices with ease.

User handling:

Similar to the above example. I haven’t fleshed out all of the tabs in time for this screenshot, but the user manager is mostly functional, including a working role model. No user interface exists for fleshing out Schemas yet, but thats next.

Here we show off some of the neat error handling:

Contextual error handling is very powerful. Here, we detected a bag login, and have flagged the offending field (though in theory it could be either username or password, though showing which would be leaking confidential information).

More on IRM authentication later. I am planning to of course support multiple authentication models, via JAAS (includes Active Directory, LDAP, PAM) in addition to builtin user databases.