Changeset 16878 for greenstone3

Timestamp:

2008-08-18T12:49:24+12:00 (16 years ago)

Author:

kjdon

Message:

got rid of NZDLReceptionist, changed NZDLParams to GS2Params, updated manual accordingly

Location:

greenstone3/trunk/docs/manual

Files:

• manual.pdf (modified) ( previous)
• manual.tex (modified) (3 diffs)

greenstone3/trunk/docs/manual/manual.tex

@@ -217 +217 @@
 remote\_site\_address & http://www.greenstone.org/ greenstone3/services/ localsite & The address of the server \\
 default\_lang & en & the default language for the interface\\
-receptionist\_class & NZDLReceptionist & (optional) specifies an alternative Receptionist to use\\
-messagerouter\_class & NewMessageRouter & (optional) specifies an alternative MessageRouter to use\\
-params\_class & NZDLParams & (optional) specifies an alternative GSParams class to use \\
+receptionist\_class & MyReceptionist & (optional) specifies an alternative Receptionist to use (default is DefaultReceptionist)\\
+messagerouter\_class & NewMessageRouter & (optional) specifies an alternative MessageRouter to use (default is MessageRouter)\\
+params\_class & GS2Params & (optional) specifies an alternative GSParams class to use \\
 \hline
 \end{tabular}}
@@ -1881 +1881 @@
 DefaultReceptionist: This extends WebReceptionist, and is the default one for \gsiii\  servlets. Due to the page design, some extra information is needed for each page: some metadata about the current collection. The receptionist sends a describe request to the collection to get this, and appends it to the page before transformation using XSLT.
 
-NZDLReceptionist: (do we want to talk about this?) This is an example of a custom receptionist. For a look-alike nzdl.org system, even more information is needed for each page, namely the list of classifiers available from the ClassifierBrowse service. 
-
 By default, the LibraryServlet uses DefaultReceptionist. However, there is a servlet init-param called \gst{receptionist} which can be set to make the servlet use a different one.
 
@@ -2140 +2138 @@
 In many cases, creating a new interface just requires the new images and XSLT  to be added to the new directory(see Sections~\ref{sec:sites-and-ints} and \ref{sec:interface-customise}). This gs2 interface required a bit more customization.
 
-The standard \gsiii\  navigation bar lists all the services available for the collection. In \gsii\ , the navigation bar provides the search option, and the different classifiers. This is not service specific, but hard coded to the search and classifiers. The XSLT that produces the navigation bar needed to be altered to produce this. But also, a new Receptionist was needed. 
-The standard receptionist (DefaultReceptionist) gathers a little bit of extra information for each page of XML before transforming it: this is the list of services for the collection and their display information, allowing the services to be listed along the navigation bar. This is information that is needed by every page (except for the library home page) and therefore is obtained by the receptionist instead of by each action. The nzdl interface needed a bit more information than this: for the ClassifierBrowse service, if there was one, the list of classifiers and their display elements must be obtained. So a new Receptionist (NZDLReceptionist) was written that inherited from DefaultReceptionist, and added this new info into the page.
-
-One of the servlet initialization parameters is the receptionist class: this was added to the servlet definition in the web.xml file so that the LibraryServlet would load up the right receptionist class.
-
+The standard \gsiii\  navigation bar lists all the services available for the collection. In \gsii\ , the navigation bar provides the search option, and the different classifiers. This is not service specific, but hard coded to the search and classifiers. The XSLT that produces the navigation bar needed to be altered to produce this. 
+The standard receptionist (DefaultReceptionist) gathers a little bit of extra information for each page of XML before transforming it: this is the list of services for the collection and their display information, allowing the services to be listed along the navigation bar. This is information that is needed by every page (except for the library home page) and therefore is obtained by the receptionist instead of by each action. The nzdl interface uses the classifier list that comes in the ClassifierBrowse service description to display teh list of classifiers. 
+
+The nzdl interface extends the gs2 interface to provide a different looking home page and an extra static 'gsdl' page.
 
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