Architecture

Some insights into the structure of the VIVO/Vitro code base.

HTTP Cache Awareness — VIVO adds headers to some HTTP responses, to assist in caching profile pages. Since release 1.6.
Interface to external authentication systems — More details on how VIVO will integrate with a Single Sign-On system like Shibboleth or CUWebAuth.
Software Architecture Overview — A diagram of the VIVO software architecture, with notes.
VIVO and the Solr search engine — VIVO and Solr are two distinct web applications that act as one. Solr gives users the ability to search the VIVO data. VIVO also uses Solr for some of its internal data retrieval.
- Using a different search engine with VIVO — The connection between VIVO and Solr is restricted to a single interface. A different search engine could be substituted. Since VIVO 1.7
Updating language files for the next release

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