Re: [xwiki-devs] GSOC 2009 project idea "Survey Application"

Chathura Prabuddha wrote: Programming experience is not all that matters. In the past years really experienced students failed because they didn't communicate enough with the community and failed to understand that their project wasn't a standalone application, but a module that was supposed to be used inside an existing, larger framework, XWiki. Also, programming for XWiki most of the times is easier than it seems, as all the hard technologies are used inside the framework and rarely needs to be touched, so although we do use servlets, struts, hibernate, plexus, restlets and other cool things, they are merely implementation details behind our API. The most important things you need to know is Velocity (which happens to be one of the most simple programming languages) and the XWiki API. Don't read this as discouraging, on the contrary, I'm trying to get you familiarized with what it takes to be successful. Good luck! -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/