Recent EMu Web Development

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Recent EMu Web Development
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Evolution, not Revolution

• texhtmlserver / texhtml
• texxmlserver / Web Objects
• Web 5
• New EMu Web System (NEWS)

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New Features

• Themes
• Cross-module searching/results
• Dynamic pages Web 2.0
• User audit trails
• Standard shopping cart facilities

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Technology Whats Going On?

• Actually quite a lot
• EMu engine
• Web-server APIs
• Theming
• Interactivity

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EMu engine

• Same role as texxmlserver
• Embedded within EMu environment
• Extensible via perl modules you can add your
  own functionality
• Basic cross-module searching
• Shopping cart interface
• Admin tool

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Web Server APIs

• Set of APIs
• PHP
• .Net
• Java
• Perl
• Other
• Used to build web services
• e.g. Multimedia web service

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Theming

• Web server code generates XML
• XSLT to process XML
• Separation of content from presentation logic
• Can be run of web-server or by browser

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Interactivity

• Browser-based code
• Javascript / jQuery
• Flash
• Silverlight
• Provides
• Background searching (AJAX)
• Markup of content (Subject links)
• Visual effects (scrolling etc.)

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EMu Client
texserver
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Browser
texhtml
texhtmlserver
texserver
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Browser
texhtml
Web Objects
texhtmlserver
texxmlserver
texserver
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Browser
texhtml
Web Objects
Web 5
texhtmlserver
texxmlserver
texserver
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Browser
texhtml
Web Objects
Web 5
PHP
texhtmlserver
texxmlserver
NEWS
texserver
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Browser
texhtml
Web Objects
Web 5
PHP
.Net
Java
Perl

texhtmlserver
texxmlserver
NEWS
texserver
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Browser
XSLT
texhtml
Web Objects
Web 5
PHP
.Net
Java
Perl

texhtmlserver
texxmlserver
NEWS
texserver
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Browser
Javascript etc.
XSLT
texhtml
Web Objects
Web 5
PHP
.Net
Java
Perl

texhtmlserver
texxmlserver
NEWS
texserver
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How can we use this?

• Build more dynamic web sites
• Build sites with different themes for different
  users
• Target sites to specific audiences
• Mobile devices (iPhone)
• Visually impaired
• Build sites that do more than query single EMu
  module
• Cross-module searching allows you to publish what
  you need from whatever modules you need
• Other tools such as Admin tool
• Build web services

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Summary

• EMus web capability continues to evolve
• NEWS is a significant addition to the existing
  web tools
• More functionality
• More dynamic web sites
• More flexibility in how you use it
• Its not hard to get data in EMu and on the web
  and you now have more options than ever