Bryan Basham

StillSecure, Inc.

Case Study: UI Design and Development

This beginner-to-intermediate presentation looks at the challenges of working with a UI design team that is separate from the UI development team and how these challenges were resolved on the Cobia project. These are a few of the challenges the team has dealt with:

• Major screen refactoring when the UI design for a given component shifts.
• Encapsulation of rich UI components (XHTML/JavaScript) without significant changes by the UI development team.
• Making screen designs (and therefore implementation) easy to read and understand.

This presentation looks at the strategies used by the Cobia team to mitigate these challenges. Cobia is a new network/security management system that includes an open source framework and pluggable modules. See http://cobia.stillsecure.org/.

Extending JSF to Build a Product-specific UI Framework

JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a rich, web UI development framework with many APIs to support extending the framework. This intermediate-to-advanced presentation will look at how the StillSecure Cobia team extended this framework to provide important architectural features. This includes:

• data conversion
• data validation
• component development
• screen management

This presentation is a follow-on to the Case Study presentation, and provides technical details to the solutions we created during the evolution of the Cobia user interface design and development.