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| UI Framework | Languages / Technologies | Widely Adopted? | Ease of Customization | Responsive web design support | HTML5 support | REST-friendly | Faceted/Filtered Search/Browse friendly | Rapid Development friendly | Third-party plugin ecosystem | Notes |
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| Existing DSpace XMLUI | Java, Apache Cocoon, XSLT | No | Not really (except maybe at Bootstrap level with Mirage2) | Mirage 2 theme = Yes Other themes = No | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
| Existing DSpace JSPUI | Java, JSPs | No | Not really (again, except maybe at Bootstrap level with Mirage2) | Yes | A few areas (e.g .HTML5 upload), but not overall | No | Yes | No | No | |
| Play! Framework | Java, Scala | Yes, some major sites use it according to Wikipedia | Yes, can be used with Bootstrap | Yes | Yes, has a modules repository | |||||
| Ruby on Rails | Ruby | Yes | Yes, has a Rails Bootstrap app, plus many gems | Yes | Yes, in form of Rails plugins & Ruby gems | |||||
| Hydra Framework | Ruby on Rails, Fedora, Blacklight | Not worldwide, but has a growing following in libraries, etc. It's The base technology, Ruby on Rails is widely adopted | Yes (well, Sufia uses Bootstrap) | Yes (uses REST to communicate with Fedora) | Yes (Blacklight) | Yes | Yes, because it's Ruby on Rails, you often can use Rails plugins and/or Ruby gems | Hydra doesn't currently "work" with DSpace. However, if we decided to the the former (create a DSpace-like Hydra Head), there are members of the Hydra Community who want the same thing | ||
| Grails | Groovy (based on Java) | Yes, large number of sites using Grails listed on website | Yes, has several Bootstrap plugins | Yes | Yes, has a plugins repository | |||||
| JQuery UI | Javascript | Yes | Yes, e.g. there is a JQuery UI theme for Bootstrap | Yes | Yes, has a plugin repository | |||||
(Javascript with RESTful JSON interface & Model-View-Presenter) | Javascript | Yes, large number of major sites listed on Wikipedia & their homepage | Yes, or at least you can use it in conjunction with Bootstrap. | Yes | Yes | Yes, has plugins and extensions | Designed for developing "single page web applications". It could prove difficult to use with DSpace because of the complexity of a repository system. | |||
| Ember.js (Client-side Javascript web application using MVC) | Javascript | Yes, see their list of users on website | Yes, can use in conjunction with Bootstrap, e.g. https://indexiatech.github.io/ember-components/#/overview | Yes | Yes | Yes, there's an "addon" repository | Uses Grunt, Bower, NPM (all of which are also in use by Mirage 2 theme) |
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