Hello!
We're evaluating several packages
for setting up an institutional repository.
I'm very impressed with D-Space, but have
a few questions - hope the list can help me out.
*. It looks like manakin actually runs D-space
code internally at its core, but does
the web interface using Coccoon.
I originally thought that Manakin accessed
D-Space as a client via EJB or SOAP or whatever:
[Web Browser]
<-> [Manakin server]
<-> [D-Space server]
, but that is not the case, right ?
*. Is it safe to have a Manakin instance and a D-Space instance
running on the same box, and pointing at the same
/dspace work folder, or is it possible for data to be corrupted
if the two servers attempt to modify the same object at the
same time ?
*. Is it safe to setup the /dspace work-folder on a network-mounted
drive ?
*. Is it safe to have 2 or more DSpace/Manakin instances running
on separate servers pointing at the same /dspace network-mounted
folder, as long as each server has its own copy of dspace/config ?
*. If it's not safe to have multiple servers sharing a read+write
/dspace folder,
then would it be safe to have multiple READ-ONLY
(anonymous asset-browsing) instances of DSpace/Manakin sharing a
read-only network-mounted
/dspace folder if we only allow a single DSpace instance to
perform
updates ?
*. For branding or customizing the web interface - it looks like we
have a choice of either:
o. working with the D-Space .jsp pages - which are pretty
old-school with a lot of embedded java
o. jumping into XML/XSL world with Manakin
Is that right ?
*. Is there any plan afoot to try to update the D-Space .jsp pages
by pushing some of the java-code into the dspace: tag-library,
and pushing the form-processing out to JSF or struts,
so we can point a web developer/designer specialist
who likes to work with
XHTML+javascript+CSS2 at the pages, and just let him do his thing
with DreamWeaver or whatever ?
Thanks for the help!
Reuben
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