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Re: [paho-dev] Java MQTT Client GUI Utility & mqtt-spy


On 09/11/2014 12:58 PM, Kamil Baczkowicz wrote:
Thanks everyone for your replies.

1) Re existing Paho tools

To sum up, I gather that Paho has the following utilities available
(correct me if I'm wrong):

a) Eclipse MQTT UI Plugin & standalone client based on Eclipse Rich
Client Platform - as mentioned by Bin
b) Standalone Paho MQTT Utility (port of the IBM Java GUI / IA92) - as
mentioned by Andy and Ian
c) there is also an Eclipse view originally contributed by Eurotech at http://git.eclipse.org/c/paho/org.eclipse.paho.esf.git/tree/. It's a possibility it could be replaced by a) above.

What could help with promoting the above:

- mention them all on the Paho webpage
- decide on uniform names and stick to them, e.g. Paho Eclipse MQTT UI
Plug-in, Paho MQTT UI (standalone), Paho MQTT Utility (IA92 port)
I agree with all of that. The only reason we hadn't so far is because I had intended some sort of rationalization of the tools first. But now I've realized it's better to publicize, because they could each have their niches.

Then, there are two other pages where various tools are listed (so
this might need an update too):

- http://mqtt.org/wiki/doku.php/tools
- https://github.com/mqtt/mqtt.github.io/wiki/tools

Q: do we need two pages? Maybe we should put a link from one to another?
I think the plan is that mqtt.org will redirect to the github site. I'm speaking to Andy Piper about it.

I'd be happy to offer my help/time in relation to all the above if you need it.

Thanks for the offer :-)
2) mqtt-spy

I agree with all of you that having different GUIs and implementations
is good, as very often choosing one is down to personal preferences
and/or system requirements/limitations.

I'm happy to contribute the code, and I'm happy to keep working on it
for the foreseeable future.

Questions from my side:

a) Would you rather see mqtt-spy as a Paho utility, or a separate
Eclipse IoT project (similar to mosquitto & moquette)? Does it make
any difference?
I think it would be best as a Paho component - this is what Paho was intended for. However, I do have an incentive to gather good MQTT tools under the Paho umbrella! There is an overhead in proposing, creating and managing a separate Eclipse project, which you might find excessive. The advantage to you could be a higher profile for mqtt-spy, I guess. Although in reality the visibility of mqtt-spy could be more down to your efforts in publicity.

b) Following the move to Eclipse, what are your views on the project's
name and a simple page dedicated to it? (e.g. similar to what's
current there at https://code.google.com/p/mqtt-spy/)
The project's name could remain exactly the same. As you point out above, having readily identifiable names for the tools will help a lot.

I also have a few more technical questions about maintaining/running
the project under Paho/Eclipse umbrella, but probably better to
discuss that offline with someone - who could advise me on that?

Cheers,
Kamil

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Ian Craggs
<icraggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Benjamin,

yep, got it.  I was just adding the information that I had actually used the
Marketplace before, as Andy did not realize that :-)

Thanks for the info

Ian


On 09/10/2014 04:03 PM, Benjamin Cabé wrote:

Ian,

What Andy and Mike are suggesting regarding the marketplace goes a step
further than having a Paho entry on the Marketplace (which is a great thing
already, don’t get me wrong!).
The idea would be to have an entry dedicated to the MQTT UI plugin, where in
addition to the description etc of the project, you would also indicate the
URL of the p2 repository and feature ID of the tool. That way, people could
install the tool directly by drag and dropping from the web browser to
Eclipse (see e.g. [1] and the « Install » button on the lhs), or could
search for « paho » or « mqtt » in the Marketplace right from their Eclipse
IDE (entry in the Help menu).

HTH!
Benjamin


[1] http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-scada-configurator#

Le 10 sept. 2014 à 16:55, Ian Craggs <icraggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a
écrit :

Andy,

I added Paho as a whole to the Eclipse Marketplace in June

http://marketplace.eclipse.org/search/site/paho

Ian


On 09/10/2014 12:21 PM, Andy Piper wrote:

OK so let's be clear on the two parts to this thread!

1. Our existing Java GUIs.

I had planned to do a screencast showing how to install the Eclipse plugin
at the time of 1.0 release but didn't get it done. We need to promote it
more; we might need help on getting it into the Marketplace as I don't think
the committers have previously been through that process.

We also have the client tool which is standalone / non-RCP / doesn't need
Eclipse. Also not well promoted / known, lots of people still use IA92 which
is essentially the same thing but built on much much older client code.

2. mqtt-spy

I love it, I think it's perfectly valid to include as an alternative, and
we'd welcome (I think) the contribution. Thanks Kamil! Any questions for us
as a team?

Andy

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Ian Craggs
<icraggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There's also a simple and incomplete port of the IBM Java GUI at:
https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/paho/1.0/org.eclipse.paho.mqtt.utility-1.0.0.jar

I started that a while back to get a simple GUI going.   I still think
that this approach is valuable in addition to the RCP GUI because:

1) it is 200k rather than 22MB, so is good for quick downloads and small
platforms
2) it can run anywhere Java can - is not limited to Linux, Mac and
Windows.

Kamil,

I see that mqtt-spy uses JavaFX, and uses Java 8.   The interface approach
also looks nice.  It seems to me that all of these utilities could be
complementary, and have a useful place in Paho, because of their different
system requirements and GUI styles.  People always have different
preferences for GUIs.  So personalIy I would still encourage you to consider
contributing mqtt-spy to Paho.

Ian


On 09/10/2014 03:54 AM, Bin BJ Zhang wrote:

In fact, Paho already got a client UI tool available for a long time which
can be run as a eclipse plugin or standalone application (based on Eclipse
Rich Client Platform).
But, it seems nobody has tried.  A screenshot here: http://pho.to/6ySi2


https://repo.eclipse.org/content/repositories/paho-releases/org/eclipse/paho/org.eclipse.paho.ui.app/1.0.0/

org.eclipse.paho.ui.app-1.0.0-linux.gtk.x86.tar.gz
org.eclipse.paho.ui.app-1.0.0-linux.gtk.x86_64.tar.gz
org.eclipse.paho.ui.app-1.0.0-macosx.cocoa.x86_64.tar.gz
org.eclipse.paho.ui.app-1.0.0-win32.win32.x86.zip
org.eclipse.paho.ui.app-1.0.0-win32.win32.x86_64.zip

Best Regards,
Bin Zhang

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<Pièce jointe.gif>Kamil Baczkowicz ---09/09/2014 11:28:03 PM---Hi all,
Following a quick chat with Andy P, he suggested posting a message

From: Kamil Baczkowicz <kamil.baczkowicz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: paho-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 09/09/2014 11:28 PM
Subject: [paho-dev] Java MQTT Client GUI Utility & mqtt-spy
Sent by: paho-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

________________________________



Hi all,

Following a quick chat with Andy P, he suggested posting a message
here to discuss, again;-), the idea of a Java MQTT Client GUI utility
(for Paho).

Over the last couple of weeks and months I've been working on
mqtt-spy. It's still far from perfect, so any feedback or help is very
much appreciated.

 From start, my intention was to make the code open and available to
anyone.

I believe you've been thinking about a Java MQTT Client GUI Utility
for quite some time, so the question is whether you still need or want
one?

If yes, I was wondering whether mqtt-spy could fill that gap, avoiding
duplication of effort, and potentially helping you when working on
Paho.

My goal for mqtt-spy is to create a functional, easy-to-use and robust
test tool for MQTT, Once all necessary features are available, I'd
also like to open it to other pub/sub protocols if time allows.

What are your views on that?

Cheers,
Kamil
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