GUI/WYSIWYG Editor and Authentication

I have been running the XWiki 0.9.840 release for several months now, and I personally find it very useful. However, when I tried to have other people who are not familiar with the general idea of markup languages try to start using XWiki in conjunction with a project, they had problems. So, my rant here is that in order for XWiki to become useful for me as a general purpose enterprise collaboration tool, the GUI/WYSIWYG editor needs to be working. Can any provide information/details about if or when this will be ready and working? The second barrier for widespread usage I can overcome myself, if I can get a small jumpstart: user creation and authentication. I have two goals here: 1. integrate with my organization's existing web signon system - we have a central web signon page that sets a secure session cookie (very similar to a Kerberos TGT) in user's browser after authentication. Web apps that recognize the cookie can then make a callback to a central server to check the validity of the cookie and receive user attributes (user ID and other authorization attributes). 2. Integration with Shibboleth for authentication - similar to above, but works beyond the boundaries of an organization's authentication system to "federate" identity. See: http://shibboleth.internet2.edu http://www.protectnetwork.org http://www.openidp.org On the admin pages there's basic information about the plugable authentication structure, so it looks like I should be able to build the appropriate classes. My questions are: A. How do I get started as a "developer"? 2. How do I edit the Login page to recognize an existing cookie of my choice? D. How do I tell XWiki to look for this cookie whenever a user arrives at the site (ie a new servlet session is created)? Thanks in advance. Chris Rigsby Systems Architect, Enterprise Application Systems University of Minnesota rigsb007(a)umn.edu * 612/624-5334