NiFi Web UI development in Dreamweaver

[Colin Bowdery <co...@hotmail.com>]

Hi All,

Can anyone provide any pointers as to how I might be able to develop the NiFi Web UI using a tool such as Dreamweaver? I have been modifying nifi-web-ui-0.6.0-SNAPSHOT.war manually but would really like to use a more professional approach. I also note there are no HTML files in this .war.

Objective is to test out some alternative layouts, styling, test various browser support and benchmark performance. I am happy to share the results back to the dev team.

Many thanks,


Colin.
 		 	   		  

Re: NiFi Web UI development in Dreamweaver

[Rob Moran <rm...@gmail.com>]

Colin,

Just wanted to echo some of the comments from other responses so far and
say welcome. I've been putting together the mockups you see in NIFI-1323
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1323>. The initial goal is to
modernize a bit for a nice foundation as we plan more key functionality and
end-user experience improvements. Again, if you're interested we'd
appreciate your opinions on that effort.

Also - I'd be interested in your results using Dreamweaver. As a designer I
primarily use Adobe Illustrator, but I have access to Dreamweaver and if I
could leverage it to help on the implementation/development side that'd be
great.

Rob

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Matt Gilman <ma...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Colin,
>
> Thanks for checking out Apache NiFi. The UI is a packaged as a Java web
> application that is built as part of NiFi's build process. NiFi uses Maven
> to build and package the application. You should be able to edit the
> sources that comprise that WAR with any IDE that can import Maven projects.
> At that point, you should be able to edit all the JSP files, Javascript
> files, and CSS files.
>
> As Joe mentioned, there is currently an effort underway to fresh the look
> and feel as described in NIFI-1323. Let me know if you have any other
> questions.
>
> Matt
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Joe Witt <jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Colin,
> >
> > I'll defer to others to comment on the specifics around dreamweaver or
> > other tools but I do want to reach out and suggest you could also
> > contribute to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1323 which is
> > part of the NiFi 1.0.0 efforts and is under active design/discussion
> > and implementation.  By no means should that deter from whatever else
> > you might want to do but if you're interested happy to hear your
> > opinions there.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Joe
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Colin Bowdery
> > <co...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Can anyone provide any pointers as to how I might be able to develop
> the
> > NiFi Web UI using a tool such as Dreamweaver? I have been modifying
> > nifi-web-ui-0.6.0-SNAPSHOT.war manually but would really like to use a
> more
> > professional approach. I also note there are no HTML files in this .war.
> > >
> > > Objective is to test out some alternative layouts, styling, test
> various
> > browser support and benchmark performance. I am happy to share the
> results
> > back to the dev team.
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > > Colin.
> > >
> >
>

Re: NiFi Web UI development in Dreamweaver

[Matt Gilman <ma...@gmail.com>]

Colin,

Thanks for checking out Apache NiFi. The UI is a packaged as a Java web
application that is built as part of NiFi's build process. NiFi uses Maven
to build and package the application. You should be able to edit the
sources that comprise that WAR with any IDE that can import Maven projects.
At that point, you should be able to edit all the JSP files, Javascript
files, and CSS files.

As Joe mentioned, there is currently an effort underway to fresh the look
and feel as described in NIFI-1323. Let me know if you have any other
questions.

Matt

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Joe Witt <jo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Colin,
>
> I'll defer to others to comment on the specifics around dreamweaver or
> other tools but I do want to reach out and suggest you could also
> contribute to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1323 which is
> part of the NiFi 1.0.0 efforts and is under active design/discussion
> and implementation.  By no means should that deter from whatever else
> you might want to do but if you're interested happy to hear your
> opinions there.
>
> Thanks
> Joe
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Colin Bowdery
> <co...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Can anyone provide any pointers as to how I might be able to develop the
> NiFi Web UI using a tool such as Dreamweaver? I have been modifying
> nifi-web-ui-0.6.0-SNAPSHOT.war manually but would really like to use a more
> professional approach. I also note there are no HTML files in this .war.
> >
> > Objective is to test out some alternative layouts, styling, test various
> browser support and benchmark performance. I am happy to share the results
> back to the dev team.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> >
> > Colin.
> >
>

Re: NiFi Web UI development in Dreamweaver

[Joe Witt <jo...@gmail.com>]

Colin,

I'll defer to others to comment on the specifics around dreamweaver or
other tools but I do want to reach out and suggest you could also
contribute to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1323 which is
part of the NiFi 1.0.0 efforts and is under active design/discussion
and implementation.  By no means should that deter from whatever else
you might want to do but if you're interested happy to hear your
opinions there.

Thanks
Joe

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Colin Bowdery
<co...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can anyone provide any pointers as to how I might be able to develop the NiFi Web UI using a tool such as Dreamweaver? I have been modifying nifi-web-ui-0.6.0-SNAPSHOT.war manually but would really like to use a more professional approach. I also note there are no HTML files in this .war.
>
> Objective is to test out some alternative layouts, styling, test various browser support and benchmark performance. I am happy to share the results back to the dev team.
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> Colin.
>