OpenMRS 2.0 User Interface Redesign

We are redoing the OpenMRS UI from scratch for the OpenMRS 2.0 release. This gives us a one-time-only chance to choose a new platform also.

We decided to build a custom framework on top of Spring MVC, using groovy templates as the view technology. The framework is under active development, but it's "ready to use" in a pre-alpha state. You can see the latest documentation at: Reference Application 2.x Developer Documentation

We haven't done much work on deciding what the content of the UI should look like, but you can see a bit of preliminary work here:

• OpenMRS 2.0 UI Content

Some historic background about choosing the technology:

• 7-Mar-2010 Choosing a technology for OpenMRS's UI redesign email to the dev list

• Picking a UI framework email to non OpenMRS people