Dorothea, While I appreciate much of what you said I would have to disagree with:
> DSpace's lack of a plugin/mod API, I don't know what a mod API is, but DSpace does have a very powerful plugin mechanism. We have used it here to create a custom RESTful Web services interface for ingestion and dissemination of DSpace content. Your plugins do have to interact with DSpace under the hood but we have found that the public Java API has been mostly backward compatible since 1.3. And you do need to code the plugins in Java, but I guess everyone has their own opinion about language friendliness. And the applications that interact with our plugins can be written in anything. We use Perl for the item creation/submission apps and Java for dissemination. -Don PS: for more information about plugins and how they can be used to create a Web services interface see: http://dspace.wrlc.org/doc/wrlc/DSpaceAsAPlatform.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
