VLO 3.0

Introduction

With VLO 3.0 a new major version of the VLO is presented with a redesigned and reimplemented front end as its key change with respect to the 2.x versions. It also uses a new major versions of Solr and Wicket, and has a number of importer improvements.

What's new?

Libraries and dependencies

• Upgraded Solr server and client (from 3.6.0 to 4.6.0)
• Using the latest major version of Wicket (Wicket 6.x)
• Dropped dependency on Simple framework (replaced with usage with JAX-B)

Front-end

• Addition of a simple search front page
• Redesigned main search interface with more prominent search results and expandable facets
• Redesigned record page
• Improved record navigation
• Improved interaction experience through increased usage of AJAX with non-javascript fallback functionality

Importer

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Documents

• ​Work plan
• ​VLO 2.x analysis

Development notes