Hi Janna, > A technical question re the bulk ingests / purges: will browser > timeouts become an issue in the new Web Administrator?
Not if we don't let them :) I think this will be a good case to test for. By the way, if you're doing large ingests as part of an ongoing process, have you looked into automating it with the fedora-ingest script? http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/x/FwFM For example, go into the fedora-home/client directory and type: bin/fedora-ingest.sh(or.bat) d demo/foxml info:fedora/fedora-system:FOXML-1.1 localhost:8080 fedoraAdmin fedoraAdmin http "bulk ingest of demo objects" - Chris On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Janna Wemekamp <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! 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