
Introducing the Web Component Framework 29
Overview of the Web Component Framework
You can modify the existing components in the browser interface using the following
operations:
• Create a custom dasboard easily by dragging existing views or data from the
action panel to it. This is the simplest way of creating a new view.
You can add any view that is designated as a portlet, thus building up a custom
page. The data tab on the action panel presents choices from which you can drag
metric charts and position them on the page.
• In the action panel, you can adjust the width of the views place on a page by
choosing the number of columns.
• Add dashboards to My Definitions. This requires more expertise, but it allows
access to the framework, so you can define completely new views.
• Create a Report.
• Add Bookmarks.
Overview of the Web Component Framework
The Web Component Framework provides the underlying structure from which you can
build the user interface for your application. A configuration framework makes it easy
to deploy dashboards and their views into various application environments. The
components it requires for operation are accessed through an interface so that the
application that uses the Web Component Framework can provide these services from
their own infrastructure without having to use arbitrary mechanisms that are not core to
the Web Component Framework.
The Web Component Framework consists of a structure for hosting related views called
view components, and container services that host data sources. It is a superset of the
View Component collection that contains other control components, such as renderers.
It is used to build thin client interfaces for products that are primarily (but not
necessarily) in the systems management domain.
The Web Component Framework is written in Java and is capable of running in a web
container such as Tomcat. It can be used on contemporary Web browsers without
requiring the use of a plug-in. It is portal-like, but is not a JSR-168 standard portal.
It supports multiple data sources. With it you can configure multiple data queries and
display this data using views. Queries are the primary mechanism used to extract data
from the Web Component Framework data sources. A view can use more than one query
(to extract data for display), and a query can use more than one data object.
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