Thanks Bill. Your reply increases our comfort level somewhat.
A technical question re the bulk ingests / purges: will browser timeouts become an issue in the new Web Administrator? (We currently have bulk ingests which can take well over 5 minutes in the Java Swing client.) Janna Bill Branan wrote: > 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] <mailto:[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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY > circumstances! Your > production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but > thanks to > Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW > KODAK i700 > Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image > processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-commons-users mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users
