Invitation to share more about this project with the larger PatternFly community?

[nicolethoen]

Hello!

I am a member of the PatternFly Platform engineering team (CSS/HTML developers and React developers). I saw the pull request about updating patternfly.org with information about PatternFly Java.

I'd love to learn more about the projects using PatternFly Java and about your experience building the PatternFly Java implementation. Would you mind sharing more? It sounds very interesting!

If you have a lot to share, I'd even love to discuss sharing the PatternFly Java project with more of the PatternFly community.
I am reachable via the email on my github profile.

[hpehl]

Hi Nicole,

thanks for reaching out.

PatternFly Java started as a way to make use of the latest PatternFly version in the next-gen managament console for JBoss EAP and WildFly. The current version of the management console is still on PatternFly 3 😟

The management console is a typical SPA, but is written in Java and transpiled to JavaScript using GWT. As I planned the next-gen management consle I needed to make a decision whether to switch to another stack (TypeScript/React) or keep the current code base (which is pretty big) but still use the latest PatternFly components and layouts.

So I started the development of PatternFly Java. In the meantime PatternFly Java supports 66 components, all layouts and four charts. PatternFly Java is not a wrapper around the React components. Instead it is based on the HTML code to build the DOM tree of the components and layouts and provide a Java API for that. I also created a showcase similar to the PatternFly website to see the components and the API in action.

What helped a lot during the development of PatternFly Java is the excellent documentation of PatternFly, the really great examples and the provided code samples. Kudos to the PatternFly team 🎉 for that! Right now the JBoss EAP / WildFly management console is the only project which uses PatternFly Java. But I'd love to see that list grow.

I'm happy to share more information about the project and its background. I'm also happy to spread the word and share what I'm doing with the PatternFly community.

[hpehl]

By the way, https://github.com/hal/foundation/tree/main/whats-new#readme gives an impression of the next-gen management console.