Re: [xwiki-devs] [ANN] Realtime Collaborative Plain WikiText Editor and WEBSOCKET!

Hi Caleb I gave it a try and the first impression is quite nice. We got rid of the issues we had with the non text area used in the previous one. Le lundi 10 février 2014, Caleb James DeLisle <cjd(a)hyperboria.ca> a

On this does it mean there is no OT at all ? And we are not using Jupiter anymore ?

Ludovic > will see the engine is still configured to log debug messages explaining > what it's > doing but unfortunately if there is a real bug which causes desync, the > historical > information of where the node went wrong is not going to be available at > this time > but I'll take this under consideration and if any bugs do turn out to

> up, I > will be fast-tracking this idea. > > Thanks, > Caleb > > > On 02/08/2014 05:37 AM, Paul Libbrecht wrote: >> Caleb, >> >> another wish to make it production ready: include a good "debug dump" > function so that users can produce reports when testing it. >> >> We've been trying the earlier version of the real-time-editor (it's > still there actually) and had quite an amount of surprising effects;

> of them may be related to paste, but not only. I had the impression of > regularly meeting a garbage state at the server, where different clients > had different views (we were speaking in Skype). The only way I could

> the inconsistency was to restart the server. Hence the suggestion of a > stronger reporting facility so that such critical situations can be > reported about and tackled in a maturation cycle out in the wild. >> >> paul >> >> >> Le 8 févr. 2014 à 10:39, "vincent(a)massol.net" <vincent(a)massol.net> a > écrit : >> >>> Hi Caleb, >>> >>> I've just tried and it works well! Well done this is very cool :) >>> >>> Now if we want to make this production-ready we would need (IMO) at > least one additional feature which is the ability to view the list of

> users editing the page and color markers per user to show who's adding

>>> >>> Note that I haven't checked the code yet. Is it some prototype-quality > code or is it following the xwiki core rules and ready for being

>>> >>> I guess you've also used some hacks for lack of UI extension points

> in the lock screen and on the edit screen where you added some extra

> which I assumed you implemented in Javascript?) which would need to be > added. >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Vincent >>> >>> On 6 Feb 2014 at 06:42:03, Caleb James DeLisle (cjd(a)hyperboria.ca > (mailto:cjd@hyperboria.ca)) wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I'm very pleased to announce two new extensions to come out of > XWikiSAS Research >>>> and the RESILIENCE Research project. >>>> >>>> Number One: WebSockets in XWiki! >>>> If you're an extension developer like me, you want events, you want > stuff in the >>>> browser to be talking to stuff in the wiki and you don't want to be > messing around >>>> with Jetty and Tomcat and all different kinds of libraries and > configuration every >>>> time you need to write an application. You just want stuff that

>>>> Here it is: >>>> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/WebSocket >>>> Include this as a dependency for your extension and the Extension > Manager will >>>> automatically include it when users install your extension. In just a > few lines of >>>> code, your users can be chatting and collaborating through the > websocket and it's >>>> based on Netty (Special thanks to the Atmosphere project for > developing Nettosphere) >>>> so it works in all versions of Tomcat and Jetty and does not need any > changes to the >>>> front-end server, just open a port on the JVM machine and you're

>>>> >>>> Number Two: A new Realtime Collaborative WikiText Editor. >>>> Indeed this is not the first attempt at Realtime Collaborative

> but perhaps >>>> it is the most academically amusing. Really this is a prototype to

> a handle on >>>> the technology before we make the leap into Realtime WYSIWYG. Whereas > the previous >>>> Realtime Collaborative WikiText editor had performance issues and was > unable to >>>> handle large pasted, the new editor uses a completely novel design > which is intended >>>> to not only port well to WYSIWYG editing but is implemented entirely > on the client >>>> with the server only relaying messages, making it portable to > different web frameworks. >>>> >>>> Check out the Realtime Collaborative WikiText Editor here: >>>> >

>>>> >>>> or install it with the Extension Manager to give it a try for