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Bug 95636 - Remove the term "CASA" from the user interface
Summary: Remove the term "CASA" from the user interface
Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: soa
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Composite Application (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Tientien Li
URL:
Keywords:
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Reported: 2007-02-15 06:18 UTC by _ gsporar
Modified: 2008-04-08 02:32 UTC (History)
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Description _ gsporar 2007-02-15 06:18:03 UTC 
The new "Composite Application Service Assembly" (CASA) editor is way cool and
everything, but usage of the term CASA is very confusing.  I see two problems:

1. It is redundant.  The terms "Composite Application" and "Service Assembly"
mean the exact same thing.  So instead of CASA we could just as well have called
it CACA (for Composite Application Composite Application) editor.  Or SASA.

2. The term "Service Assembly" should probably not be used anywhere in the user
interface.  See related IZ: http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=95635

So when I open up the CASA editor in a recent daily build of 5.5.1 and I see
over in my Navigator window things like: "CASA Logical View" and a top-level
node called "CASA" it sort of makes my head spin.  As someone who is new to this
technology, I immediately wonder: What is a CASA?

Please replace it with the words "Composite Application" in the user interface.
 Using a <casa> element in the XML is fine by me as is the usage of .casa as a
filename extension.  But please, let's not confuse the users any more than we
have to.  :-)
Comment 1 Joshua Sandusky 2007-02-27 23:06:07 UTC 
Tien assigning to you as this involves product/marketing issues.
Comment 2 Tientien Li 2007-10-12 22:13:44 UTC 
All suggestions made in this request have been implemented in NB6.0
Comment 3 alexismp 2007-10-13 08:49:08 UTC 
You don't want to know what CACA means in French...
Comment 4 _ gsporar 2007-10-22 15:25:28 UTC 
>All suggestions made in this request have been implemented in NB6.0

Great!  Does that by chance also mean that we can close http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=95635 ?

Thanks,
Gregg
Comment 5 _ gsporar 2007-11-09 17:56:37 UTC 
Reopening this issue.

In NetBeans IDE 6 Beta 2 I see "CASA" all over the help file contents.  Please fix before FCS - this is *way* confusing.
Comment 6 Tientien Li 2007-11-13 16:24:23 UTC 
We beleive it is very fitting to name the editor as the "Composite Application Service Assembly"  (CASA) editor. The 
term "Composite Application" in this context referring to the composite application project of NetBeans. The 
term "Service Assembly" means a JBI specific deployment packaging format. The "Composite Application Service Assembly" 
editor was designed as a tool that takes a composite application project and generates a JBI service assebmly 
according to user specified compositions, i.e., ports and connections.

The full name Composite Application Service Assembly is too long to be used directly in UI. Since using CASA on the UI 
may be confusing to beginner users, we agreed to remove all direct usages of the term "CASA" in UI. However, we don't 
seen any problem using the terms "Composite Application Service Assembly editor" or "CSAS editor" in documentations 
such as on-line help.
Comment 7 jlautz 2008-04-08 02:32:52 UTC 
Since we have now added the Service Assembly to the Composite Application, and not changed the CASA term, and Tientien
doesn't intend to, I will verify that this hasn't been fixed.