Hi Christophe

Having been developing extensions for two DSpace repositories  for a 
short time in JSP and now Cocoon I must say I would be dismayed if the 
DSpace community decided to drop Cocoon.  Cocoon is extremely powerful 
and perfect for what I have been doing.  There may be a learning curve 
with Cocoon but that goes for any new technology.  Having recently 
upgraded DSpace 1.5.0 to 1.5.1, I was very pleased not to have to go 
through every locally modified JSP (and Java) file and manually merge 
them with the new version, as was the case the JSP version.

George


Christophe Dupriez wrote:
> Hi Robin,
>
> I would like to strongly support your proposal.
>
> But there is one question: will the DSpace community continue to 
> support two UI ?
> Personally, I prefer JSP to Cocoon but I think that supporting two 
> interfaces on the long term will be unmanageable...
> How people really using Manakin now evaluate this issue? Are they 
> satisfied? Do they think JSP are easier, simpler, faster? Or they 
> enjoy new useful features with Manakin and are happy with the overall 
> organisation it imposes?
>
> Personally, I still belief "cleaned-up" JSP with a good API to access 
> DSpace objects (designed from Manakin experience), some new JSTL tags, 
> some EL functions would be easier to learn and use than Cocoon.
> But I did not made the transition (still deriving my work form DSPace 
> 1.4.1): I may be completely wrong!!
>
> Have a nice week-end,
>
> Christophe
>
> Robin Taylor a écrit :
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I recall a short while ago you commenting on the fact that there had 
>> been no clamour from the community for a JSP 2.n based UI, well I 
>> would like to start a small scale clamour. Is there any reason why we 
>> couldn't include the necessary jar(s) in the daddy pom.xml and the 
>> appropriate entries in the web.xml, that would allow those who wished 
>> to take advantage of 2.0 features ? I have been making changes to 
>> some pages recently and it does my head in having to resort to 
>> scripting within the pages.
>>
>> Cheers, Robin.
>>
>>
>>
>>   
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