[Dspace-devel] cache expiration

2011-10-13 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
Hi, a recent thread on dspace_tech [1] got me thinking about my previous experiences with caching, in other web development environments. In particular, a few years back, I did a lot of development using a PHP-based framework called ezPublish, and it had a caching scheme that could, on occasion, be

Re: [Dspace-devel] cache expiration

2011-10-13 Thread Peter Dietz
Hi Hardy, I've used the "clearcache" functionality on our production site, and it is useful for performing manually, when your site is just stuck. I think it would be best to hide the url in a location that public users can't access /protected/clearcache, just because they shouldn't have access to

Re: [Dspace-devel] cache expiration

2011-10-13 Thread Mark Diggory
IMO I think that while I originally proposed this solution, it may not completely undo our current problems. the following changes introduced a behavior into the XMLUI that no longer allows the page to state it has changed because the following selector preempts this process and forces response he

Re: [Dspace-devel] cache expiration

2011-10-14 Thread Mark H. Wood
I have noticed that, in contemporary languages with easy dynamic allocation and garbage collection, we wind up with a lot of "caches" that aren't caches in the traditional sense, but baskets that fill slowly and endlessly with everything we've ever seen. This approach (e.g. allocate a HashMap and

Re: [Dspace-devel] cache expiration

2011-10-14 Thread Tim Donohue
All, Just a brief note, for those who are not aware -- the "clearcache" functionality that Peter talks about is now built into DSpace 1.8.0 (and its URL is only accessible to DSpace System Admins). You can kick it off via the Admin UI Control Panel. See: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-96