WebMVC is new user interface for DSpace built on top of Spring's WebMVC framework. The goals of the project is to write the user interface in a clean technical implementation, with business logic removed from the presentation layer.
At the presentation/view layer, any number of technologies could have been used including JSP's, however the current implementation in the WebMVC project is to use Freemarker, a templating language.
It has extensive theme support, and allows different themes to be applied to different areas of a repository.
Development is ongoing, and as an open project, it could always use assistance. Fork this project on GitHub, and start contributing today: https://github.com/DSpace/webmvc
Issue tracking will be done in GitHub Issues.
The old Jira issue tracker for this project is still up, but we are no longer adding issues there: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DWMVC
This project also has its own GSoC 2011 Student Project: GSoC 2011 - DSpace WebMVC
WebMVC is a module add-on to DSpace. The instructions below will guide you how to check out a stable release of DSpace, and alter it so that it references the WebMVC project into its build process.
Checkout the source code.
mkdir project-webmvc cd project-webmvc svn checkout http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace/tags/dspace-1.7.1/dspace/ git clone git://github.com/DSpace/webmvc.git |
Edit ~/project-webmvc/dspace/pom.xml and add an entry for webmvc.
Index: pom.xml =================================================================== --- pom.xml (revision 6625) +++ pom.xml (working copy) @@ -505,6 +505,7 @@ --> <modules> <module>modules</module> + <module>../webmvc</module> </modules> <build> |
Compile everything, and add the war for freemarkerui to Tomcat
cd ~/project-webmvc/dspace mvn package sudo mkdir /dspace sudo chown dspace:dspace /dspace cd target/dspace-1.7.1-build.dir ant init_configs ant update ## Add the .war to tomcat, there are many ways of doing this. sudo cp ~/project-webmvc/webmvc/freemarkerui-webapp/target/dspace-freemarkerui-webapp-1.7.0-SNAPSHOT.war /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps ## Edit your dspace.cfg to have your bootstrapping database configs (i.e. dbname, password) vi /dspace/config/dspace.cfg /etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart |
Test it out in your browser
/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome http://localhost:8080/dspace-freemarkerui-webapp-1.7.0-SNAPSHOT |
Some examples, of what is currently available.
Community and Collection list.
Screenshot of browse results.
Additionally, WebMVC has multiple themes (Mirage and Kubrick), the default theme is Oasis.
