Andy Oliver (of Apache POI fame and now JBoss employee/consultant) has written up a blog story titled "XUL dreams" that outlines the architecture for a new JBoss console using XUL.

Andy writes:

I'd be happy to have *technical* feedback from XUL experts or other ideas to make this better. Please keep technology evangelism to a minimum. I'm interested in:

• Minimizing the number of remote requests
• Maximizing the user experience
• Keeping rendering time LOW (applets suck for this)
• Avoiding client side install (Mozilla is the toughest pill I can swallow, and I'd rather avoid that!)
• Running this on my Powerbook (Windows sucks too, but most folks use it so it needs to run there as well)

So here are my nearly free-flowing thoughts so far. For the server side of this console I envision this...

Don't keep Andy hanging and share your thoughts on the next gen JBoss console architecture here or on Andy's blog or join the discussion on the xul-talk mailinglist.