Apaf Built in browser as a native UI on Ubuntu Linux

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Apaf should provide a built-in browser functionality that, after application startup, open a window-less browser UI to the APAF web application management interface.

This functionality maybe provided trough an existing platform support.

The embedded browser UI would provide to the end-user the look and feel of a native UI application, by providing directly access to the localhost available Apaf application.

The embedded browser technology to be used, should, whenever possible, use the platform's support, for example:

• It must be analyzed which kind of platform framework to use for Ubuntu Unity compatibility

Such embedded browser should guarantee that:

• communication only authorized/defined hosts, by default only localhost.
• no logging policy is enforced
• no caching policy is enforced

it just act as UI for apaf application.

By following this approach the design of APAF application will be just done as a standard web applications, without the need for the developer to learn "desktop specific" UI languages.