Winterface seperates logic and template of Freenet's web interface, enforces a better modularization and makes theming easier.
For a more comprehensive description see the Wiki page at FreenetProject.org
Get the latest released version of Winterface, along with instructions on how to load it from the Winterface Updates freesite.
Current Freenet's web interface FProxy uses HTMLNodes in combination with ToadletServer to deliver HTML-Pages. This has the disadvantage of mixed template and logic which makes it hard to separately make changes to each of them. Moreover debugging and understanding of code can be very exhausting.
Winterface is delivered as a Fred plugin:
- It uses Apache Velocity as its component-based web-framework to generate HTML files from templates
- Jetty (embedded) as a serlvet-container is used to deliver Velocity generated servlets.
- It should completely replace replace FProxy,ToadletServer and associated Toadlets
- It ''should'' make it possible to override Templates (HTML files) and design (CSS+JS)
What is to do:
- Create HTML templates and corresponding servlet logic for each existing Toadlet
- Make reusable components (e.g. Panels) for reusable templates (e.g. Alerts)
- Eventually add new functionalities
Requires freenet and freenet-ext. As these are not currently available in Maven repositories,
after downloading
them or building them from source, install them:
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=freenet.jar -DgroupId=org.freenetproject -DartifactId=fred -Dversion=0.7.5.1467 -Dpackaging=jar
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=freenet-ext.jar -DgroupId=org.freenetproject -DartifactId=freenet-ext -Dversion=29 -Dpackaging=jar
This will download the remaining dependencies from the Internet.
mvn package
Enter the path to the file with a name ending in jar-with-dependencies.jar under the target directory into the "Add an Unofficial Plugin" field on the Configuration > Plugins page and click "Load."
Icons used for the interface are created by Mark James and released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License