5 Jun
2007
5 Jun
'07
6:30 p.m.
Hi Tharindu,
On Jun 5, 2007, at 5:34 PM, tharindu jayasuriya wrote:
Hi all,
I'm working on developing a plug-in for eclipse that would allow
XWiki to integrate seamlessly with the development environment (as
part of GSoC2007). I have investigated TimTam which is a similar
plug-in. The major issue i need to clarify is what sort of
integration would be necessary, displaying XWiki pages within a
browser widget inside eclipse environment seems quite straight
forward, but this would simply mean that I have eliminated the
requirement for an external browser. On the other hand TimTam
provides a tree navigation function which is quite handy; is it
possible to have this kind of a functionality with XWiki ? or else,
is there a better way to do this ?
The integration I have in mind uses XWiki's XML RPC interface for
performing the actions. The IDE would provide the UI for the actions,
navigation, etc. One key feature we need is (as in TimTam) the
ability to find directly the document to view/edit without navigating
through links AND the ability to work offline (as in TimTam - You
download the page which you then edit in disconnected mode in your
browser and save later on - The ability to automatically save the
page locally would be nice to have too).
What would be nice is if you could prepare a document listing the
user stories/requirements for this editor. That could be a good start
for a discussion and I think we need this before jumping in the
implementation details. We could then do some planning and set some
shared expectations.
Some UI mock ups would be nice too.
WDYT?
Thanks a lot for working on this! I'm very excited by this feature
-Vincent
The related JIRA issue is,
http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-1323
Regards,
- Tharindu.