Sami Siren wrote:
Hi,
The web2 ui was originally an effort to make the web ui more modular and
easier to customize. The architecture below the surface is mildly put
outdated and it relies on a dirty trick that allows jsp's to be executed
from inside .jar files.
If I would write it again today I would probably use webmacro or
velocity instead to get rid of the hack that breaks on servlet
containers with different versions of jsp api. My recommendation is: do
not use it ;)
It has long been on my todo list to start discussion about the future of
a end user interface in Nutch and possible future directions (where did
all that time go?). I think that we need a simple to maintain ui that is
easy to customize (both of the current ui fail to satisfy those
requirements IMO).
What kind of thought do others have?
I agree that we have to keep things simple. Nutch is not about the shiny
UI, but rather the down-to-earth functionality, and then users can put
their own shiny UI on top of the platform.
If we can come up with something slightly better and easier to customize
than a bunch of ugly jsp-s then we should do it.
IMHO web2 goes to far in this regard - it's too complex. Further, since
it's not that well maintained and doesn't even compile, I'd be in favor
of removing it completely.
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Best regards,
Andrzej Bialecki <><
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