Writing  java code not not necessary unless developing a pluign.
You may want to look at http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial

The is the best place to start with velocity code in wiki pages to build applications to extend xwiki.

Thanks
Sachin


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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:27:49 +0100
From: "Jean-Vincent Drean" <jv@xwiki.com>
Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] Developing/Extending XWiki
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Hi,

you might be interested by this article written by Vincent :
http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=XWiki
This article explains how to create simple applications inside XWiki
using xwiki development capabilies (objects and classes).

JV.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Kamna Jain <kammy.scorpi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks Guillaume and Sergiu.
> I have another Question:
>
> We are looking at using XWiki to build an appication to be used within the
> company. I downloadd the XWiki Enterprise and am running it local on my
> system. I have started customizing the pages just to get a feel of how the
> application would look.
> Say, for example as a developer, if I wanted to insert an HTML form into one
> of the pages and ask users to fill that in for me. How exactly should I
> process the user input. Should I write Java code which will be a part of the
> XWiki Enterprise package or will it be a part of the XWiki Platform core?
> I am a little confused on this issue. Any insight will help immensely.
>
> Thanks
>
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