We have two separate web-apps, say ‘retailUI’ and ‘bulkUI’. These two are basically two separate web applications (within the same business domain). Now, the requirement has been given to us to make the two work together in one page with a Tabbed interface (as a PoC).
My problem is that both the applications span over a number of JSP pages for navigation.
Is there a way that I can achieve this using some framework or some other approach?
We have two separate web-apps, say ‘retailUI’ and ‘bulkUI’. These two are basically two
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If you want to keep the two applications as much as possible the way they are now, without rewriting them entirely, you gotta use iframes. That means the content of each tab is actually an iframe.
For such cases I found of great use a ExtJS user developed component, ManagedIFrame which as it’s names suggested is a managed iframe. Using it, your iframes can interact with each other(for instance sendind messages from one to another, listeners etc.)
Carefully planing the listeners and their registering by checking whether the peer is there you could build this integrated application without rendering the two separate applications unoperational when ran standalone.