Re: [xwiki-dev] RE: [SOC] Faqbot (ping?)

This looks really interesting.. We'll try to provide some hep to Jie into doing this.. Indeed the separation between the FAQBot and XWiki is important.. It kinds of depends how much stuff would be nice to do in XWiki versus how much is in an independent FAQBot.. You could just view the wiki as a source of data for the FAQBot, and the FAQBot is a completely independent servlet application which just reads data from the wiki in XML format.. The UI of the FAQBot would be an independent servlet API.. You could also build the FAQBot as a library which can be embedded in XWiki using a plugin.. You could also put the FAQBot engine in a SOAP (or REST or XML-RPC) Web Service and write and XWiki plugin to interact with the FAQBot.. So you would have the user interface in XWiki but everything would go through the SOAP API to interact with the FAQBot engine (both pushing data to the faq bot and querying the faqbot).. I like the idea of a web service.. but you could do it step by step.. For the part that would be packaged as an XWiki Application, Jeremi will send you some information on how this will work and when we plan it to be ready. Plugins are not part of XWiki Application, as they require a server install..