September 2005 - xwiki-devs@xwiki.org

IntelliJ svn checkout fails
by Yves Langisch 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Hi, I'm just trying to check out the actual xwiki source with IntelliJ 5.0.1. I can browse the repository but when I want to checkout IntelliJ says: Cannot checkout from svn: Unknown command 'get- locations'. Is this an IntelliJ or svn repository problem? Thanks Yves

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xwiki Build Failed
by ludovic＠xwiki.org 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

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xwiki build.138 Build Successful
by ludovic＠xwiki.org 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

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Behaviour when adding a property
by Yves Langisch 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

I defined a class with several properties and I created some documents based on this class. Now I added some new properties to this class but I'm not able to supplement the new properties in the existing objects (field is read-only, no input field). When I create a new one the property can be set. Is this a normal behaviour? Yves

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This month is DOC month - I'll take a lead.
by Cody Burleson 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

XTeam: I hope you don't mind me giving you a name. :-) Sort of like the "A-Team". I hope it gives you a sense of pride. You are working on one very important software system. Why? Because Xwiki answers certain to needs that no other wiki does. In this respect, it is trully a unique system that has both great capability now and extraordinary promise for the future. A few noteworthy facts: Siebel Systems is using XWiki. Siebel is a worldwide leader in customer relationship management systems. More than one team at IBM leverages XWiki. IBM is a world leader in software, hardware, and business consulting services. XWiki has even taken life inside of the corporate offices of UPS, the worlds largest package delivery company. Give yourselves a big pat on the back! But not too big; I need your help. I have only recently joined the "XTeam" and my first goal is to fill a task that many do not often enjoy - creating and editing documentation. I do not necessarily enjoy writing documents, but I know that the importance of good documentation is too often overlooked. I believe that good documentation will help the evolution of XWiki more potently than most realize. I believe that... People judge XWiki before even trying it based soley on the quality of the documentation. First impressions are critical. If administrators have a poor installation experience (due to poor docs, for example), they will be disenchanted immediately. Innovative developers who can bring powerful enhancements to XWiki can bring those improvements faster if we decrease the initial learning curve through solid documentation. Open source projects are typically poor in documentation. Thus, we can look at this as a lesson and strive to use this as a point of great differentiation. My goal over the coming month is to play a strong role in transforming the User Guide and Administrator Guide. To achieve this goal, I pledge to work on documentation a little bit each day. Afterwards, I will probably roll into the usability and user interface focus. Until then, i hope you will accept me as a workhorse for you. Here's how you can help me (and the XWiki evolution): 1. Take a little time out to reflect on some things you have learned about XWiki and document them in the new guide areas. DEV GUIDE: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WebHome ADMIN GUIDE: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/WebHome 2. Feel free to send rough notes, comments, or thoughts to me and I will do the dirty work of cleaning them up and finding an adequate home for them in the guides, 3. Explore the organization of the new guides. Look for empty holes. Ask yourself what you might be able to contribute there and contribute something if you can. I am sure that before the month is over, we may reorganize the guides more than once just to get them "just right", so expect to see some changes and some movement of documents. Ludovic has already gotten a reorg started; it isn't perfect, but it is better. Progress must be iterative. Expect frequent questions from me here as I struggle to learn and ensure accuracy of the documentation. At a minimum, please remember that source code documentation can be extremely valuable for other XTeam members. Otherwise, just keep up the great work on the software and do what you can to review and improve the accuracy of the new docs that will be going up over the month (as time permits). ================================== Cody Burleson cburleso(a)us.ibm.com

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xwiki build.137 Build Successful
by ludovic＠xwiki.org 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

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[Fwd: Re: [phoenix-dev] XWiki]
by Stéphane Laurière 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

I'm forwarding to the list part of a discussion currently starting in the Eclipse-Phoenix project mailing-list. The Phoenix project consists in providing a new infrastructure for Eclipse online infospace: http://eclipse.org/phoenix/ Most requirements of the project are listed there: http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/phoenix-dev/msg00053.html Any support is welcome for comparing XWiki with other wiki engines and for discussing further with Phoenix team! Teaming up with them would be great for the future of both projects! Stéphane -- Stéphane Laurière slauriere(a)mandriva.com

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Session Management
by katrina_mitchell＠homedepot.com 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

How is session management handled for the XWiki?

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XWiki Backup trouble - Part 2 (Getting there)
by Cody Burleson 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Unbelievable what I had to go through to get some of the backup system to work on Windows! The classpath in the env.sh file is so long that when you convert it to a Windows .bat file, Windows doesn't even accept it! I had to copy all my libraries into C:\lib just to get the classpath line short enough. I executed the export script (groovy export). The utility created a db folder with files in it, so it seems to work (I guess). Except for the following error in my xwiki.log file: 17:26:53,428 WARN main Configurator:configure:126 - No configuration found. Configuring ehcache from ehcache-failsafe.xml found in the classpath: jar:file:/C:/lib/ehcache-1.1.jar!/ehcache-failsafe.xml A few questions now: 1. Does anyone know why I am getting this ehcache-failsafe warning? 2. Does backup's export/import handle the binary attachments? 3. If I backup from one wiki and import in another, am I overwriting the wiki or appending to it? 4. Is there a plan to incorporate the backup feature into the XWiki user interface (because all of this special configuration on Windows is quite troublesome)? ================================== Cody Burleson

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Trouble with Backup - HELP
by Cody Burleson 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

So, I am having trouble figuring out how to use the new backup feature. Can someone throw me a bone? Here is what I have done: 1. Upack the latest Groovy binaries to C:\groovy-1.0-jsr-03 (download from Groovy site) 2. Set GROOVY_HOME env variable to GROOVY_HOME that directory (C:\groovy-1.0-jsr-03) 3. add C:\groovy-1.0-jsr-03\bin to your PATH environment variable. 4. Put C:\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\xwiki\WEB-INF\lib\xwiki.jar; on CLASSPATH 5. Test on cmd: Type groovyConsole to make sure groovy works 5. Copy libs from xwiki "backup" into lib folder of xwiki/web-inf 6. copy "hibernate.cfg.xml" from backup to xwiki/web-inf/classes 7. copy import.groovy and export.groovy to webapps/xwiki/ Then, when I type the following on the CMD line, I get an error (see below) C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>cd C:\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\xwiki C:\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\xwiki>groovy export.groovy General error during class generation: No such class: XWikiContext in constructor call for class: xwiki.export.export. At [7:11] export.groovy 1 Error The XWiki war I am using is from a build I did last night off of all the latest code from the Trunk branch. But why is my XWikiContext not recognized? I have even put xwiki.jar on the classpath. ?????? ================================== Cody Burleson

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