Re: [xwiki-users] Your feedbacks on a possible MailArchive application

Of course Vincent, I completely agree with you ... It's more a joke hiding some kind of lazyness from my side, having to rewrite parts as components (and having to gain information about how to do that most of all ...) * How do you autocomplete in wiki pages I'm so used not having this feature when working in wiki pages that I don't even bother... * How do you have quick access to all your code scattered in several pages all visible from within your IDE My IDE is XWiki ... :/ Never found an easy way to manage wiki pages in link with IDE / SCM tools. * How do you write unit tests * How do you document and generate javadoc Of course there is none of that for now ... :( * How do you handle registration/unregistration of components Well, that's a question for me : for now I used the application manager to generate a Xar and set a version to it. I don't know if this kind of thing is/will be managed by extension manager ? Of course for now it's not a component at all. On another side working directly inside XWiki pages has some great advantage : you can test directly (no deployment or compilation phases). In fact it's too late to create the component before putting too much code in wiki pages, because almost all the app is already coded (in wiki pages ...) :) And what is left to code is mainly display ... But business logic is mainly located in one groovy class in one page (the mail loading, is the heart of the application). What's left in other pages are some utility methods (that need some refactoring), the ldap bridge, and the threading algorithm maybe. So I agree with you that it should not be a very big deal to refactor and transform this groovy class into an xwiki java component, and it has added-value. I'll add that in the pre-requisites for the first version. Indeed, I will ask you to be a little patient :) Side-question : is it possible / advisable to write this xwiki java component in groovy ? At the end it can be compiled into java bytecode, and as most groovy dependencies are already part of the xwiki distrib, it should work, what do you think ? Or do you recommend to write it in Java ? Jeremie -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Your-feedbacks-on-a-possible-MailArchive-… Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.