[Isis-users] J-ISIS Progress

[Prakash R]

Dear Jean-Claude,

I am glad to know the recent development. It show your commitment and
dedication for library and user community. Thank you so much

Prakash

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Jean-Claude Dauphin
<jc.dauphin at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear ISIS users,
>
> I whish to inform you that. J-ISIS is still in heavy development and code
> refactoring. Please find below a summary of some of the recent developments:
>
> 1)J-ISIS latest versions are using the DJ-Native Swing JWebBrowser library
> to offer a Web Browser through J-ISIS. It was quite successful for
> providing a  Web Browser for most popular platforms. But the Java
> integration has always produced from time to time some strange behavior
> (like losing the focus on the other components after clicking on the
> Browser window, overlapping of windows, etc.) , most probably because of
> mixing heavyweight and lightweight components and also because of our
> incompetency in solving the issues.
>
> Thus, recently we changed for the JavaFX 2.2 WebWiew. The integration with
> Java is fine and we have got rid of all the DJ-Native Swing problems.
> However, we have lost some features which were given for free with the
> native browsers such as downloading resources in different formats and
> opening them in the right application. The embedded browser component is
> based on WebKit <http://www.webkit.org/>, an open source web browser
> engine. It supports Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, Document
> Object Model (DOM), and HTML5.
>
>
> 2) The Jetty Web Server has been embedded in J-ISIS, thus when you start
> J-ISIS, you have a database server (Database is a Berkeley DB) as well as a
> Web server. Records are displayed through the Web browser and can access
> other Web resources with the embedded Jetty Web server.
>
>
> 3) Web-JISIS prototype is futher developed and tested to provide a more
> robust release. The menu bar is now stable, changing PFT when displaying
> records is now working as well as changing the worksheet in data entry.
>
>
> 4) And many small Improvements such as:
>
> *Indexing Techniques*
>
> The field content is checked to see if it is html. In case it is
> recognized as HTML, the text part is extracted and used for indexing.
>
> *Import/Export*
>
> Better wizard screens and support for other formats such as Dublin Core**
>
> *Search*
>
> Better highlighting of the seach terms in the results**
>
> *Worksheet Editor*
>
> Drag and Drop of the worksheet fields to change their order**
>
> *PFT Editor*
>
> The output produced by a format with a specific record is now working
> properly, thanks to the new JavaFX Webview Browser.*
> *
>
> *PFTs*
>
> Images stored in blob fields can be used in PFTs.
>
> *Images*
>
> Images are now well displayed through the new JavaFX Webview Browser
> which is independent from the platform. Images can be stored directly in a
> record and/or as a Web resource url.
>
> *Web Resources*
>
> A Web resource is anything that is addressable over the Web with a url.
> They can be addressed through a relative url if the resource is on the
> server machine or by an absolute url if the Web resource is on a remote
> machine.
>
> *Digital Library feature*
>
> Improved speed for large document and better user feedback about the
> process.
>
>
> The tests I have done until now proves that the new JavaFX embedded
> browser component fits very well in J-ISIS and avoid the many annoying GUI
> problems I have seen in the previous releases.
>
>
> I wish to provide this new version ASAP so that it can be tested on
> different platforms. Hopefully, it will be available before end of next
> month.
>
> With my best wishes,
>
>
> Jean-Claude
>
> PS) You will find attached some screen shots from the current development
> version
> --
> Jean-Claude Dauphin
>
> jc.dauphin at gmail.com
> jc.dauphin at afus.unesco.org
>
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R. Prakash
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