[Greasemonkey] Introducing Monkeygrease: The Server-Side Greasemonkey

Jeff Barr jeff at vertexdev.com
Mon Nov 7 22:41:30 EST 2005


What, may I ask, is consultantware?

Is it stuff that you paid to have developed but that you don't have any 
source for?

Jeff;

Jeremy Dunck wrote:

>On 11/7/05, Rich Manalang <rich.manalang at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>simple little
>>servlet filter I've been working on called Monkeygrease (
>>http://monkeygrease.org). It's basically a server-side Greasemonkey for J2EE
>>web apps.
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>...
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>>Anyway... just thought some in the Greasemonkey community might be
>>interested.
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>Yep, I am.  My company has several closed-source J2EE consultantwares
>and I can see this being useful for improving UI for productivity. 
>Greasemonkey doesn't work so well in that context because 1) the apps
>are IE-only, 2) the users go through Citrix, which I don't have
>control over, and 3) they're freaked out by the flicker of late
>injection.
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>One piece of advice, though... the concept of a server-side GM (as
>opposed to proxy GM) didn't fit my brain at first.
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>As the elevator pitch, how about:
>"Monkeygrease allows you to alter the output of closed-source J2EE web
>apps before it is sent to the client."  Then list the examples.
>
>I don't think the "like greasemonkey, but not in the user's control"
>will go over well.  :)
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