Thursday, June 01, 2006

DSpace vs Xena II : Xena's Revenge

DSpace is now using Xena to create a normalised file at the point of file ingestion, and adding this file to the Item so it appears in the "Files in this Item" list. It was much easier this time around, as the file is stored in some temporary location when first uploaded from the client, and it is very easy to create a XenaInputSource from a File reference.

There will still need to be some work to do up in Sydney - what to do if an exception happens during the normalisation process is perhaps the biggest issue from a coding viewpoint. We will also need to convince the Sydney Uni guys to switch to Java 1.5 or Xena won't run! Java is backwards compatible, and DSpace is working well on my test machine, so hopefully there won't be any problems...

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