Spring Boot + Node

[tdonohue]

In order to turn this prototype into a full DSpace application, we'll need to find a way to deploy our Angular2 UI alongside Spring Boot.

Initially, this may mean creating a Spring Boot module which simply acts as a "pass-through" to the deployed REST API module.

Longer term (likely post-prototype), we'd like to see the REST API actually served up via Spring Boot (though this will require major refactoring of the existing Jersey-based REST API).

Here's a basic description of what we likely need:

• The Angular2 UI should sit alongside existing DSpace (6.x) codebase in the same DSpace-Labs GItHub project
• The Angular2 UI should be buildable via Maven (see for example Mirage 2 build scripts which already built Mirage 2 via NPM, etc)
• The Angular2 UI should be deployable/installable alongside other DSpace webapps (namely REST API), DSpace database, etc through an install process somewhat similar to DSpace 5 or 6.
• By default, the Angular2 UI should be configured to use the REST API installed alongside it. (Though obviously it could also be possible to run the Angular2 UI from a separate server)

[tdonohue]

As discussed in today's meeting, this is lower priority task for Phase 2. All Phase 2 tickets currently in the "ready" state should be considered higher priority