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Ambari Views offer a systematic way to plug-in UI capabilities to surface custom visualization, management and monitoring features in Ambari Web. A "view" is a way of extending Ambari that allows 3rd parties to plug in new resource types along with the APIs, providers and UI to support them. In other words, a view is an application that is deployed into the Ambari container.

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Terminology

The following section describes the basic terminology associated with views.

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Using the example above, I can create two instances of the FILES{0.2.0} version, one instance that is configured a certain way and the second that is configured differently. This allows some Ambari users to use FILES one way, and other users a different way.

See Framework Services for more information on instance configuration properties.

View Lifecycle

The lifecycle of a view is shown below. As you deploy a view and create instances of a view, server-side framework events are invoked. See Framework Services for more information on capabilities that the framework exposes on the server-side for views.

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