[xwiki-devs] [XEM] Automatic installation

Hi all, Before launch the very first version of XEM (XWiki Enterprise Manager) I need to make some automatic installation system. At minimum XEM need : - root wiki which manage wiki farm - default template wiki from which other sub wiki can be created First the actual existing tools to manage package/installation : XE has generic installation system base on HSQLDB and Jetty that simply generate the HSQL database file at build time and package this in installation system. XEM can reuse most of this mechanism except for one part : HSQLDB. This database system can manage only one database which is unusable for multi-wiki purpose. It's mainly on that part I need to discuss what can be done and how. I already made some work around and think of what solutions I see. 1 - First I made an "automatic installation page" that is a root wiki document with attached xar. When that page is rendered, it check if there already exists at least one template wiki and, if not, create it from attached xar. Base on that it will be possible to make maven plugin able to attach XE xar at build time. 2 - Another solution is to work more on installation runtime and to ask user all necessary informations (database host, user, login, etc.) and initialize database with root wiki and all template or sub wiki we need. The first solution strength is that it doesn't depend on the way root wiki is deployed on database (installation init, import xar, etc.) but it load down root wiki with attached xar file and need to always check if XEM is already initialized. I think at long term the two solutions has to be possible but what of these (and other solutions I forget I'm sure) is most useful for other project or much more fast to implement that can be the first step ? Regards, -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs