Hi Janna,
It's certainly true that the new Web Administrator does not provide all of
the functionality that the Swing-based Administrator provides, at least not
yet. The features comparison page you pointed to was originally created to
try to nail down the features we thought were most important to include in
the first iteration of the Web Administrator. That page was then updated to
show which features actually made it in on this first round. We intend to
add features to the Web Administrator in future Fedora releases; some of
those features will cover functions which are already provided by the Swing
Administrator, some will be entirely new.
At this point we really don't have a time-line for the retirement of the
Swing Administrator because that will depend on how quickly we are able to
add these new features to the Web Administrator. The notice in the release
notes is really there just to let you know that we don't intend to do any
further work to improve the Swing-based Administrator as that effort will
instead be going into the Web Administrator. That being the case, we see
that there will likely come a point when the Swing-based Administrator is no
longer needed, which is when it will be retired.
Hope this helps.
Bill
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Janna Wemekamp <[email protected]>wrote:
> G'day,
>
> We've been carefully reading the 3.2 release notes and the 3.2
> documentation about the new web-based Admin client to determine if we
> can use it as part of the custom work-flow system we're building for a
> pilot project using FedoraCommons. We're currently on FC 3.1 and use the
> Java Swing client to bulk ingest large numbers of objects via FOXML
> files built by custom applications. We also use many of its other
> features - such as purging objects - regularly.
> In fact, the only major feature we don't use is Batch processing.
>
> We're particularly concerned about the following statement in the
> Release Notes:
>
> /The enhancements below introduce a web-based repository
> adminstrative client
> <
> http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCR30/Fedora+Web+Administrator
> >.
> Although the legacy java-swing client is still included in the
> release, this represents an initial move towards its deprecation.
> /
>
> The detailed description of the new Admin client (as compared to the
> Java Swing client) in
> http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/DEV/Old+Admin+Features is
> extremely concerning - particularly the following statements:
>
> /The following list of features are those which are provided by the
> 'old' Fedora Administrator. For comparison purposes, features in
> lighter font are those which have not been implemented in the Web
> Administator. It is possible that some of these features will be
> implemented in the future.// /
>
> The new Admin client's functionality is significantly reduced compared
> to the current Java client!
> Although we applaud the development of a web-based client, we will not
> be able to use it in our pilot project as-is:
> the functions we currently need are not available.
>
> What are the plans for the future functionality of the new Admin client?
> What is the time-frame for the retirement of the Java Swing client?
>
>
> TIA!
>
>
> Janna Wemekamp
>
>
>
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