by Mathias Huber & Ivan Senic, as a result of a meeting on 08/07/2011

General organization

Perspectives

It was concluded that having one perspective is tedious for the future UI. Thus, it was decided to create 2 logical perspectives, which will be separated by the user operations. The first perspective would be "Analyze Perspective", where the work of the user would be concentrated on the analysis of the gathered performance data. Second perspective would be "Instrumentation Perspective" where the user can work with Configuration Interface. With this, we clearly separate the type of work a user is performing in each perspective.

In future this can additionally be extended to the third perspective, when the loadIT and inspectIT integrate into one product. However, since this is probably too far away, it will not be discussed now.

Shared between perspectives

The only thing that needs to be shared between perspectives is a component that will provide the management of the servers (repositories). Currently, this is done quite "dirty", and it is often not clear what will be the outcome of, for example, repository removal or update.

Thus, the proposal is that the Repository Manager component is created, that will extract the functionalities related to the adding, removing and in total managing repositories. This, component has to be accessible from all perspectives, for example from a main menu, or/and the perspective tool-bar. On the other hand, all views that need a list of current repositories can relate to Repository manager.

Analysis perspective

The analysis perspective will have more views. All views in this perspective can be minimized, maximized and closed (reopened). The initial perspective layout will have all view on the left side of the screen in tab arrangement, and editors on the right side. The user can freely arrange the position of editors/views later.