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AIX Version 4.3 Differences Guide

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interface. Web-Based System Manager is intended to significantly increase the<br />

object-orientation of system management of <strong>AIX</strong>.<br />

The reasons for this approach, as opposed to an application-oriented user<br />

interface are:<br />

• By focusing on objects rather than tools for manipulating objects, OOUIs are<br />

more direct and require less learning than application-oriented GUI's.<br />

• OOUIs (especially if implemented using object-oriented programming<br />

techniques) have a more consistent user interface than application-oriented<br />

interfaces, further reducing the amount of learning required by the user.<br />

• OOUIs follow the current trends in user interface development. User interface<br />

styles such as CDE, OS/2, and Windows reflect a trend of increasing<br />

object-orientation.<br />

6.2.3 Web-System Manager Launch Interfaces<br />

Web-Based System Manager has been implemented in a modular fashion so that<br />

it can be accessed from a variety of launch points. Some launch points are:<br />

• A Web-Based System Manager launch page running inside a Java-enabled<br />

browser.<br />

• A Web-Based System Manager application icon in the CDE application<br />

manager.<br />

The launch pad icon in the CDE Application Manager loads the Web-Based<br />

System Manager environment with launch icons for all of the Web-Based System<br />

Manager applications. Multiple applications can be started without the need to<br />

restart the Web-Based System Manager environment each time.<br />

The remote launch pad icon in the CDE application manager enables the<br />

administrator to login to another <strong>AIX</strong> <strong>4.3</strong> host and manage it with Web-Based<br />

System Manager.<br />

The command line allows Web-Based System Manager to be in X Windows from<br />

an aixterm window or in the CDE desktop from a dtterm window.<br />

When an applet is invoked from a Web-Based System Manager launch interface<br />

it appears as a Java frame (essentially a child widow) above the launch interface.<br />

Additional dialogs are always opened as child windows. The initial Web-Based<br />

System Manager frame appears in Figure 14.<br />

100 <strong>AIX</strong> <strong>Version</strong> <strong>4.3</strong> <strong>Differences</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>

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