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I’m writing this email to provide some background and clarification about the ALA occurrence search (front-end) web application. </div>
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There are actually 2 separate versions of this web app. The <b>old</b> Spring MVC version which was developed over 3 years ago and a
<b>new</b> Grails version which was developed this year. The <a href="http://ala-demo.gbif.org/">
demo site</a> and <a href="https://github.com/gbif/ala-install">ansible script</a> both use the new Grails version. For those of you who have only used the ansible script, you can probably stop reading now. But for those people/groups who attended the workshop
in Costa Rica last year, please read on… </div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new
</span><font face="Consolas" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;">biocache-hubs</font><font face="Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"> Grails webapp is a direct replacement for the old
</font><font face="Consolas" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;">hubs-wepabb</font><font face="Helvetica,sans-serif"> Spring MVC webapp. As a number of our other front-end systems were already done in Grails, it made sense for us to migrate the hubs-webapp
to Grails, as it meant there was a single layout file (and associated CSS files) required for all these apps. The webapp was written with most of the core functionality being in a Grails plugin, with a light weight client Grails app using the plugin and providing
the skinning, as well as overriding any components that need customisation (i18n, views, custom URLs, etc). </font></div>
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We aim to have the code up on Github soon (you can find it on the <a href="https://code.google.com/p/ala-hubs/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk">
ALA Google code repo</a> until then - see biocache-hubs and generic-hub). Once up on Github, it will be easier for people to clone/fork our code and provide pull requests back to us, etc. We will make an announcement about the Github code repo, on this list,
once we’ve moved the code over.</div>
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If any of you have already created custom i18n translations for the old hubs-webapp code, could you please send me either a zip copy via email or the URL to your code repo and I’ll try and include the i18n codes into the GSP pages, etc. </div>
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Cheers</div>
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Nick</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Nick dos Remedios</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Atlas of Living Australia</div>
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