[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Nuanced JAVA calibration for AS setup at small institutions

[Adam Jazairi]

Hi Odette,

I'm responsible for the technical upkeep of my institution's ArchivesSpace
instance, and my lack of Java experience hasn't hindered our implementation
efforts so far. You or your IT staff will probably need to adjust the Java
virtual machine's resource consumption, but that doesn't require writing
any code. There's some good documentation over here:
http://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/user/tuning-archivesspace/

In my opinion, it's much more important to have some expertise in MySQL if
you want to run AS in production. Ruby and JavaScript are necessary to
write plugins, but that might not be a concern for your use case. (If you
find that you do need a plugin, there's also a possibility that somebody
else has already written it; AS users are great about sharing their work on
GitHub.)

Best,

Adam

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Megan Garbett-Styger <megan at pnptc.org>
wrote:

> Hi Odette,
>  I am also without IT support. I ended up using this Youtube video to get
> me through set up and got it running successfully.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8sDok-eMFo
>
> Best of luck!
>
> Megan
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Allen, Odette <oallen at tacomacc.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello All-
>>
>>
>>
>> So I am at a very small community college and trying to set AS set up. In
>> seeking the support of my IT department where has been much protest
>> (rending of shirts, pulling of hair) at the amount of JAVA knowledge
>> required to calibrate AS into production mode. We don’t have a JAVA
>> specialist  and I don’t have the skillset, but I can’t imagine this is a
>> unique sitch. What are other small institutions with minimal tech supprt
>> doing to run AS for production? Learning to code in JAVA? Does AS fly well
>> enough without the tweaks in calibration?
>>
>>
>>
>> Odette Allen
>>
>> TCC Archive, Building 7
>>
>> 253-460-3990 <(253)%20460-3990>
>>
>>
>>
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