I’d like to share a word on communication. We’ve decided to start with Jabber (www.jabber.org) as the communication layer between the various components. Jabber is great because it can be as simple as you want while allowing for practically limitless expansion. Given the open nature of Jabber, for example, we could write our own server … Continue Reading about Messaging →
Bibliographic Data Storage and Access
Though there haven’t been many requests for the information in this post, we felt it would be a good idea to keep everyone up to date on the internal direction and progress we are making, much as Jason’s earlier post regarding the Staff Client did. What follows is an overview of where we are with … Continue Reading about Bibliographic Data Storage and Access →
Staff Client
The database and middle layers have been progressing as expected, but we are choosing a new direction with the client half of things. This is only unfortunate in that the user interface is the most visible and graspable part of the system, and it would have been nice to have screenshots and mockups by this … Continue Reading about Staff Client →
Hardware
We’ve had some questions about what kind of hardware we’re developing the software on, so I’ve decided to write an entry about it. As we describe in the FAQ, we’ve decided on Linux on x86 as the target platform, and we’ve built a development cluster accordingly. We have 5 Linux servers of varying configuration: 1 … Continue Reading about Hardware →
Welcome!
This part of the Open ILS website is referred to as a blog, or web log. We intend to use this page for sharing more technical updates on the project’s development than what you find on the project’s homepage. Think of this area as the place for diary or journal entries from the developers. We … Continue Reading about Welcome! →