EJBCA Wiki

Page for notes about nice ideas etc…

• JBoss has a project for integration to communications channels, like sms, telephone, google talk, etc.This could be used for notifications in EJBCA. Imagine if you got an automatic voice call when your certificate is about to expire, or is ready to be picked up.
• Transform the WebGUI to an external GUI (like the RA) that is deployed locally if you like. This would make sure all features are available in both and make it easier to replace it with another (think custom Workflow GUI for a specific task).
• The public web should only present a username and password to the requesting user. Depending on the actual token (Usergen, P12 etc) the user will be directed to the right page.
• Skip the list-boxes for displaying CAs and profiles and use JSF-tags with a normal link in the right of the screen for Edit/Show.
• Basic functions and and/edit CAs should be on one simple page with expandable info fields for CAs.
• DONE - Activating CAs should be possible to do in one batch-operation if they have the same PIN (HSM).
• When adding users to admin groups it would be nice to have a search (separate field or "as you type") to prevent spelling mistakes.
• Change approvals so it is configurable for each access right. E.g. edit a CA could require 2 approvals, activating a CA 0 approvals and creating a end entity 1 approval..
• First page of admin-GUI should present CA overview (new activation page?) and a result of an internal HealthCheck run. Possibility to see which node in a cluster it is and turn on health check maintenance for the node?
• An web-GUI installation page which is based on Groovy, that can be changed and executed dynamically in the jvm. People can then specially tailor their installation simply by configuring the installation page to use another groovy script (creating profiles etc) instead of the default. Much easier than them writing special java code for custom installations.
• We should use consistent color coding of messages. We can use larger colored fonts for alerts and errors much like we do now. However, red makes users think an error has occured and should therefore be used only for errors. We could use blue for notifications and green for affirmation. Some concern has been raised that green is bad for the colorblind though.