I say Manakin all the way. Not only is the out-of-the-box design better, but it's significantly easier to customize (although not precisely easy), and I think is essentially the future of DSpace, interface-wise.
You can run both in parallel, in case you need to get to something in the jsp that isn't working in xmlui. But I think end users are much, much better off seeing only that Manaking interface. --Dave ================== David Walker Library Web Services Manager California State University http://xerxes.calstate.edu ________________________________ From: Lyn Amery [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 10:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dspace-tech] xmlui versus jspui I’m new to DSpace, setting up an archives repository. I’m reasonably technical, but not overly experienced in web development or the technologies utilised therein. I’ll need to adapt DSpace to suit my agency’s needs. As a first step, I’m trying to decide whether to go with the JSP or XML (Manakin) interface. I’ve yet to find any discussions on what the advantages are of one to the other. As a newbie, would one be simpler to modify? Are there things which one does or doesn’t do particularly well? Thanks for any suggestions! Cheers, Lyn Lyn Amery Web Analyst/Programmer State Records Office (08) 9427 3493 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
