WSO2 Registry custom UIs - an example

I though it would be useful to give a quick sample of custom UIs, since this is a new concept for SOA registries. So our sample here is an Axis2 module configuration file. Usually, if a custom UI is not provided, WSO2 Registry will give a download link to download the resource content. But we would like to view the module configuration, without downloading it. And also, we prefer to edit some parameters on the fly, from the UI. So, here are the results of using WSO2 Registry custom UI functionality to achieve above requirements.

Custom UI to view Axis2 module configuration:

Custom UI for editing Axis2 module configurations:

(sorry that images are not very clear after uploading them to blogger. I have to find a better way to add images)

Thus, you can generate UIs to match exact requirements of your SOA artifacts. You may highlight certain values, make some values immutable, add descriptions, etc. Magic behind this is the handler mechanism of WSO2 Registry (in fact, generating custom UIs is just a one application of handlers). And WSO2 Registry makes it more convenient to write custom UIs for XML content. You can just write XSLTs to generate view and edit UIs for XML content. That's exactly what we have done in this sample. You can browse the view and edit XSLTs for this sample from WSO2 Registry svn. All the resources for this sample can be browsed here.