Custom UIs are a user preferred way to add their own UI implementations into the registry. It is associated with Media types (To learn more information about Media types, please, visit the Adding a Resource page). By adding a few entries to the component.xml, custom UIs can be plugged in to WSO2 products.We will be using the custom UI sample located at $GREG_HOME/samples/custom-ui/ to explain the process of writing a custom UI.
Componentcomponent.xml contains the Custom UI configuration. The user has to define the:
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For each UI type, you can specify the corresponding media type it will be associated to and the respective JSP that will be called. In the given example component.xml, when a epr Media type is added, the respective epr_add_ajaxprocessor.jsp is called.
Please, take a look at the respective JPSs available in the source of the sample to have a better understanding of the implementation details. Basically, this JSP, will be what is displayed when the custom UI event occurs.
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