web ui improvement
I have recently been working with refactoring the web gui to be a more extendable and manageable by replacing the spaghetti jsp ui with and ui layer done with struts and tiles. By doing so it will be much more easy to provide for example a plugin(extension) that will just change the layout of the search, provide new ui functionality (like the did you mean feature) in a form of plugin etc.. I know there are people who think that a plain xml interface is good enough for all but I would like to give this new architecture a try. As part of the required functionality of the 0.8 release discussion on some other thread my opinion is to postbone any new ui functionality (for example NUTCH-48) until the new architecture is in place (if it is decided to be applied). If people are interested to see this work in progress I will prepare some sort of demo next week (still some work to do before it will reach a form of a patch). -- Sami Siren
Re: web ui improvement
Sami Siren wrote: I know there are people who think that a plain xml interface is good enough for all but I would like to give this new architecture a try. I think this would be a great addition. The XML has a lot of uses, but we should include a good native, extensible, skinnable search UI. +1 As part of the required functionality of the 0.8 release discussion on some other thread my opinion is to postbone any new ui functionality (for example NUTCH-48) until the new architecture is in place I would not veto someone testing committing NUTCH-48. We should avoid investing too much effort into this if it will soon be obsolete. But if a small effort will give folks did you mean support in the interim, that's not a bad thing. Of course, folks can always apply this patch themselves... Doug
Re: web ui improvement
As part of the required functionality of the 0.8 release discussion on some other thread my opinion is to postbone any new ui functionality (for example NUTCH-48) until the new architecture is in place I would not veto someone testing committing NUTCH-48. We should avoid investing too much effort into this if it will soon be obsolete. But if a small effort will give folks did you mean support in the interim, that's not a bad thing. Of course, folks can always apply this patch themselves... Agreed, perhaps I meant to say that I will not apply it ;) -- Sami Siren
