The friendly G-PBox Graphical User Interface for the VO/Site admins G-PBox GUI The friendly G-PBox Graphical User Interface for the VO/Site admins
G-PBox/GUI Scenario G-PBox GUI VO/Site Admin G-PBox server management Policy managemen creation/editing distribution Linux/Windows GUI VO/Site Admin Linux/Mac/Windows
GUI requirements User friendly widgets Secure connection to the server Dynamical graphics (no HTML) Easy installation/configuration Scalable and easily upgradable Windows/Macintosh compatible
Our GUI choices Java client GSI and SSL connection will be an Applet/Start Web application no CLI offering !!!
Current GUI features G-PBox server administration (develop stage) G-PBox addresses Listing Policies Creation Editing
LIVE DEMO WINDOWS runs it !
Advantages VO/Site benefits Developers benefits training requirements are reduced a corporate-like tool reassures the admins Developers benefits don’t waste time reinventing the wheel separation between GUI and Server develop (two separate teams) wider G-PBox adoption
Future Secure Web Services GUI-Server connection AJAX technology (using Google Widget Toolkit) evaluation