web ui improvement

2006-04-07 Thread Sami Siren
I have recently been working with refactoring the web gui to be a more extendable and manageable by replacing the spaghetti jsp ui with and ui layer done with struts and tiles. By doing so it will be much more easy to provide for example a plugin(extension) that will just change the layout of

Re: web ui improvement

2006-04-07 Thread Doug Cutting
Sami Siren wrote: I know there are people who think that a plain xml interface is good enough for all but I would like to give this new architecture a try. I think this would be a great addition. The XML has a lot of uses, but we should include a good native, extensible, skinnable search UI.

Re: web ui improvement

2006-04-07 Thread Sami Siren
As part of the required functionality of the 0.8 release discussion on some other thread my opinion is to postbone any new ui functionality (for example NUTCH-48) until the new architecture is in place I would not veto someone testing committing NUTCH-48. We should avoid investing too