[Dspace-tech] Generic DSpace servlet/webapp utilities?

2015-08-03 Thread Brown, Jacob
Hi all, I'm working (slowly) on a simple alternate web frontend for DSpace: https://github.com/kardeiz/disco.* I was thinking that it would be nice if DSpace provided some implementation-agnostic utilities for a generic HttpServlet context. For example, XMLUI and JSPUI provide their own

Re: [Dspace-tech] Generic DSpace servlet/webapp utilities?

2015-08-03 Thread Peter Dietz
My first thought nowadays when I hear generic, is REST. Otherwise, any *.util classes will need to deployed by some webapp. Independent of XMLUI/JSPUI. Not-A-UI? To actually accomplish REST-ification, would we make XMLUI/JSPUI depend on REST to accomplish some things? Such as recent submissions to

Re: [Dspace-tech] Generic DSpace servlet/webapp utilities?

2015-08-03 Thread Monika C. Mevenkamp
Peter Disco ? Rails in front of REST ? What can it do ? Where can I see it ? I agree - a UI in front of rest will enforce at least some code layering - although it is not a full solution to avoiding code replication for higher level operations, aka controllers / business logic / workflow ...

Re: [Dspace-tech] Generic DSpace servlet/webapp utilities?

2015-08-03 Thread Luiz dos Santos
...@princeton.edu] *Sent:* Monday, August 3, 2015 1:43 PM *To:* Peter Dietz pe...@longsight.com *Cc:* dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [Dspace-tech] Generic DSpace servlet/webapp utilities? Peter Disco ? Rails in front of REST ? What can it do ? Where can I see

Re: [Dspace-tech] Generic DSpace servlet/webapp utilities?

2015-08-03 Thread Brown, Jacob
. Mevenkamp [mailto:moni...@princeton.edu] Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 1:43 PM To: Peter Dietz pe...@longsight.com Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Generic DSpace servlet/webapp utilities? Peter Disco ? Rails in front of REST ? What can it do ? Where can I see it ? I

Re: [Dspace-tech] Generic DSpace servlet/webapp utilities?

2015-08-03 Thread Tim Donohue
Hi Jacob (and all), Interesting work so far! In case you (and others) hadn't heard, a new UI platform is the top priority on our DSpace Roadmap (recently approved by our DSpace Steering Group): https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RoadMap More info on the UI Project specifically at: