Thanks Mark, this is quite helpful...i will go on and study tutorials on JSP1 and see how i can be able to fully customize dspace.
On Wednesday, 14 August 2019 05:54:06 UTC-7, Mark H. Wood wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 04:51:19AM -0700, Turbo wrote: > > I am working with an organisation that have decided to use dspace 6 as a > > repository system,and i have been assigned a responsibility to manage > the > > repository and part of the requirement requires me to do a lot of code > > manipulations especially at the backend, I am a full stack web developer > > experienced in using laravel and vuejs and so far looking at the dspace > > code looks complicated to me despite checking the dpace documentation. I > > understand dspace is built with Jsp and Servlets, so i am thinking of > > taking a course on it online if that will guarantee my understanding of > the > > whole dspace code base. I don't know if there is any of such courses you > > will recommend or anything other resource or means that will help me to > > fully understand and be able to reverse engineer Dspace6. Thanks > > Welcome to the community! > > DSpace 6 has *two* complete web UIs: one based on JSP, and the other > on Cocoon 2. You can choose whichever is more suited to your > organization's needs, including compatibility with your prior > experience. Their feature sets are quite similar (though not 100% > identical). > > The JSPUI is probably more conventional. It's JSP 1 with a sizable > amount of scriptlet code mixed into the templates. You should be able > to find books and training on JSP easily. There is a bit of advice on > customization, but JSPUI is fairly straightforward: > > > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/JSPUI+Configuration+and+Customization > > > The XMLUI has quite a lot of DSpace-specific structure built on top of > Cocoon. It would be a good idea to read: > > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/DSpace+Reference > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Advanced+Customisation > > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/XMLUI+Configuration+and+Customization > > > You will see "Manakin", the original project name for this UI, used as > an alternate name for XMLUI in the documentation. For a quick > overview of XMLUI: > > o The Java code uses a toolkit called WING to build an XML document > in a dialect called DRI. It's organized into "aspects" which each > get a chance to add elements to the developing page. The Cocoon > sitemap orchestrates this process -- the aspect code embodies > Cocoon generators, readers, and transformers. There is formal > documentation of DRI, and from that and source comments you can > infer quite a lot about how to use WING. The DRI documentation is > rather vague about things like styling, because that is not done at > this stage. > > o The DRI document is sent through a set of XSL transforms, again > orchestrated by Cocoon, to produce the final XHTML which is > returned to the browser. The transforms are organized into > "themes". You can configure a single theme throughout the site, or > select different themes for different parts. I'm sorry to say that > there is very little documentation on how any given theme > interprets DRI -- I always have to rummage through the XSL until I > find what I want. Despite this I prefer XMLUI to JSPUI, although a > thorough rewrite to JSP 2 might have changed my mind. > > Alas, Cocoon documentation is rather sparse. There are several good > books on Cocoon 2.0/2.1. > > You should also be aware that DSpace 7 is in heavy development and > expected in the not-too-distant future. Its single GUI is a complete > rewrite built around AngularJS and a new, more comprehensive REST API. > The code is all available now if you want to see it or work with it, > but it is NOT yet feature-complete. > > -- > Mark H. Wood > Lead Technology Analyst > > University Library > Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis > 755 W. Michigan Street > Indianapolis, IN 46202 > 317-274-0749 > www.ulib.iupui.edu > -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/7dec9a1d-bfdd-4e85-94bc-53eba741ef68%40googlegroups.com.
