In short the web based dashboard uses the following components
- PHP
- jQuery
- jqGrid
- Flash based charting engine
InfoCaptor dashboard designer which is a desktop based tool(yeah it can be made to run on a webserver using jnlp webstart…) was coded entirely in Java.
I am happy that I chose PHP for developing the web based dashboards.
There is so much of productivity boost when coding the web dashboard compared to the effort involved using Java.
For e.g. When I had to implement the Auto-refresh feature in Java, there are so many things to consider..threads, timers etc.
But when it came to javascript, the auto-refresh is achieved with just a tiny call to set-interval method
window.setInterval(”refreshdashboard()”, 10000);
The above code will call the refresh dashboard every 10 seconds.
True simplicity.
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