[Isis-users] J-ISIS functionalities

[Jean-Claude Dauphin]

Dear Roberto,

Thank you very much for taking the time to try J-ISIS.

I would be very pleased to implement in J-ISIS the missing features that you
feel as a user would be
very useful. But I would need your help to clearly define the use cases,
i.e. to describe the GUI that
J-ISIS should offer and the output that should be produced.

I am not sure, but I think that the "PrintSort" module offers some of the
features that you are requesting.
I have in mind the implementation of a feature for producing documents from
the records, i.e. with front
page, header, footer, margins, page numbers, single and multi-columns, etc.
With the possibility to
format documents in pdf, rtf, html or xml formats. In fact, the Groovy
example in the J-ISIS Quick tutorial
produce such a document.

To answer yr question about Web-JISIS, Web-JISIS is a 3-tier Web application
that uses the J-ISIS Database server.
Some coding is needed to develop the Web client using XHTML, CSS, AJAX and
JavaScript, and the middle
tier using Struts 2 MVC application framework that transfers the client
request to the J-ISIS database server and
send back the response to the Web client.
I made some progress on Web-JISIS:
 ** implemention of session management (user has to login again if no
activity after 30 minutes)
 ** implementation of the change of pft for record browsing and search

I am also working on providing a web administrator application that would
provide features as those that you
may find in CMS, i.e. setting the Web-JISIS front page with xhtml, css and
images, setting the menus, etc. and
of course user management, i.e. assigning user id and password, user info
and roles, which databases he can
modify, etc.

Thanks again for your time,

With my best wishes for this new year 2011,

Jean-Claude


On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:13 AM, <roberto.sturman at ts.infn.it> wrote:

> Dear Jean-Claude & dear ISIS discussion list subscribers,
>
> I installed the J-ISIS (version Dec 2010) and played with it. Its very
> innovative approach, using an external database storage and indexing and
> preserving the ISIS core features (ISO 2709 fields+subfields, repeatible
> tags, the formatting language capabilities, etc.) and thus allowing to
> overcome some limitations of the other ISIS implementations (see below),
> makes it in my opinion an value-added member of the ISIS software family.
> Congratulations to Jean-Claude Dauphin for his conceptual and coding work!
>
> About the functionalities, what is in my opinion missing in this software
> (as well in other ISIS "members" like the abandoned WINSIS), is the lack
> of a FORMATTED listing as the initial way of displaying data of a database
> sets (sets of recs by MFN range, by search results, by previously marked
> and saved records, etc.), allowing users to select one or more records for
> subseqential full display, editing, export, etc. Despite J-ISIS clearly
> represents a great step forward to some traditional ISIS family
> limitations, like the new dictionary unlimited key length and UNICODE
> support, just to mention some, I think that the above mentioned feature
> (formatted listing) would be essential and should be considered as the
> main way of displaying records for subsequential selection. The browsing
> of single records of a database set can be a very time consuming task for
> the user in the case of large number of results.  In my opinion this is
> the STANDARD way the final users expect to get the records from a
> database. It is true that JISIS currently supports the record listing, but
> just as an UNFORMATTED table, typical of spreadsheet programs and moreover
> JUST to edit the raw record data. It is also true that being JISIS an open
> source project, it allows to modify the source code, but I am speaking
> about the basic, standard features, that im my opinion should the coded in
> the core package.
>
> Is there any plans to implement this feature in the near future?
>
> Just one more question. Is WEB-JISIS just a porting of the JISIS, or is it
> a derivate work, implying additional coding?
>
> Best regards and once again again congratulations to the author for his
> great job,
>
> roberto sturman,
> librarian
>
>
> P.S. Best wishes for a happy new year!
>
>


-- 
Jean-Claude Dauphin

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