[xwiki-dev] GSoC : IDE Editor Integration

[tharindu jayasuriya]

Hi Vincent, thanks for your quick reply :)

On 6/5/07, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net> wrote:
>
> 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?
>

I think I need to get familiar with XWiki's XML RPC API a bit. I'll post a
document with requirements and user stories by this saturday evening. I also
agree with the requirement that users should be able to navigate through
documents without actually having to go through html links.

Thanks again.

- Tharindu

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.
>
>
>
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