5 Jul
2011
5 Jul
'11
5:34 p.m.
Here are my answers to your questions.
Great. It's not clear from the presentation if you
pushed sakai data
to XWiki or if you overriden the auth, groups and rights services ?
Data is pushed
from sakai to XWiki. The authentication, groups and rights
is controlled by the tool and pushed to XWiki. So permissions set in Sakai
are pushed to XWiki.
Is the iframe velocity script changes available
somewhere ?
Integration like that comes up from time to time and we don't have a
clean "skin less" skin.
We are in the process of committing the code to
the Sakai repository and
will include the velocity scripts as well.
You mention FCKEditor vs XWiki Editor ? What make you
choose not to
use the XWiki Editor ?
Are you storing content as HTML/XHTML or are you talking to the XWiki
conversion backend ?
We chose the FCKEditor since this is the editor used in all
Sakai tools.
We did not want to introduce a different editor for the wiki. The output
of the editor is in HTML/XHTML.
It would be great to list the REST issues that you had
and also any
missing REST services that there might be.
We should make sure our API is complete for people to work with.
Will do so in a
separate email.
Hope I was able to answer your questions satisfactorily. Let me know if
something is still unclear.
- Adam
Adam Hocek
Information Technology
Marist College
tel: 845-575-3948
From: Ludovic Dubost <ludovic(a)xwiki.com>
To: XWiki Developers <devs(a)xwiki.org>
Date: 07/04/2011 05:20 AM
Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] a successful integration of XWiki with
Sakai
Sent by: devs-bounces(a)xwiki.org
Thanks for the feedback. Some more questions below.
2011/7/1 Adam Hocek <Adam.Hocek(a)marist.edu>du>:
Hi Ludovic,
Thanks for your reply back.
Sorry for not getting back sooner. I do have a link to the presentation
at http://www.slideshare.net/ahocek/xwiki-sakai-integration .
I would be happy to give you more details on the integration and options
we looked at.
In short we implemented a Sakai tool that used Sakai's user, group,
roles
management tools to map to XWiki groups and
permissions. We have hooks
into when a Sakai course site and roster are updated so to synchronize
with XWiki users and groups.
Great. It's not clear from the presentation if you pushed sakai data
to XWiki or if you overriden the auth, groups and rights services ?
We looked at two UI options, exposing XWiki
through an iframe or writing Sakai-side UI components
to interface
directly with XWiki. We opted for a mixed implementation with most of
XWiki being exposed through an iframe using XWiki css and velocity
scripts
to customize.
Is the iframe velocity script changes available somewhere ?
Integration like that comes up from time to time and we don't have a
clean "skin less" skin.
It could be nice to share it.
For editing we use Sakai's standardized editor,
FCKEditor (later will
move
to CKEditor). We added widgets to the editor to allow
XWiki pages to
You mention FCKEditor vs XWiki Editor ? What make you choose not to
use the XWiki Editor ?
Are you storing content as HTML/XHTML or are you talking to the XWiki
conversion backend ?
reference Sakai resources. There could of course be
other widgets that
could added into the editor and integrate with specific Sakai tools.
The
rest of implementation exposes XWiki in an iframe for
views,
annotations,
comments, history, etc..
Last comment on the implementation, we looked at both XWiki'a REST and
RPC
implementations. We first implemented using the REST
API and found that
response was a little slow for certain accumulative queries and
iterations. The RPC implementation was more responsive, but in the end
it
sounds like the XWiki community is more interested in
supporting the
REST
API so we would go with a REST implementation too.
It would be great to list the REST issues that you had and also any
missing REST services that there might be.
We should make sure our API is complete for people to work with.
Thank you for the mention of curriki.org. Many Sakai deployments are in
colleges and universities, but there is a growing number of K-12 grade
schools using Sakai, in which case the curriki integration would be a
good
match.
Note that Curriki is available as separate software, so it's not
necessarly about the K-12 content of Curriki.org.
Curriki could be used as the software as a content repository.
Ludovic
- Adam
Adam Hocek
Information Technology
Marist College
tel: 845-575-3948
From: Ludovic Dubost <ludovic(a)xwiki.com>
To: XWiki Developers <devs(a)xwiki.org>
Date: 06/29/2011 04:29 PM
Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] a successful integration of XWiki with
Sakai
Sent by: devs-bounces(a)xwiki.org
Hi Adam,
This is great ! I've seen some tweets during the conference that
announced
the session.
I heard a lot about Sakai and it's great that there is now an
integration.
We'd love to know the type of integration you did. Is it authentication,
UI
level integration, content integration.
If you have a pointer to your slides of the presentation that would be
great.
You might also know the Curriki (http://www.curriki.org) is build on top
of
the XWiki Software, which is an education oriented software which is
also
released under the LGPL licence.
It could be possible to piggyback on your integration to integrate
Curriki
with Sakai.
Ludovic
2011/6/29 Adam Hocek <Adam.Hocek(a)marist.edu>
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Hello XWiki Developers,
I wanted to let you know that we completed our first release of
integration of XWiki with Sakai (sakaiproject.org). Sakai is an open
source collaborative teaching and learning application used by many
educational institutes worldwide. The integration replaces an older
less
supported wiki tool in Sakai. We presented the
new tool at the recent
Sakai 2011 conference in Los Angeles, CA, and are anticipating several
schools to begin using the tool. I think this will be bring about
greater
exposure and have a positive impact for the
respective open source
communities.
If anyone has any questions I'd be happy to try and answer them. We
will
probably be emailing to this list sometime soon
with some specific
questions and requests.
Cheers,
- Adam
Adam Hocek
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Marist College
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