[xwiki-users] [ANN] Realtime Collaborative Plain WikiText Editor and WEBSOCKET!

Hi all, I'm very pleased to announce two new extensions to come out of XWikiSAS Research and the RESILIENCE Research project. Number One: WebSockets in XWiki! If you're an extension developer like me, you want events, you want stuff in the browser to be talking to stuff in the wiki and you don't want to be messing around with Jetty and Tomcat and all different kinds of libraries and configuration every time you need to write an application. You just want stuff that works. Here it is: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/WebSocket Include this as a dependency for your extension and the Extension Manager will automatically include it when users install your extension. In just a few lines of code, your users can be chatting and collaborating through the websocket and it's based on Netty (Special thanks to the Atmosphere project for developing Nettosphere) so it works in all versions of Tomcat and Jetty and does not need any changes to the front-end server, just open a port on the JVM machine and you're done. Number Two: A new Realtime Collaborative WikiText Editor. Indeed this is not the first attempt at Realtime Collaborative editing but perhaps it is the most academically amusing. Really this is a prototype to get a handle on the technology before we make the leap into Realtime WYSIWYG. Whereas the previous Realtime Collaborative WikiText editor had performance issues and was unable to handle large pasted, the new editor uses a completely novel design which is intended to not only port well to WYSIWYG editing but is implemented entirely on the client with the server only relaying messages, making it portable to different web frameworks. Check out the Realtime Collaborative WikiText Editor here: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/RealTime+Wiki+Editor or install it with the Extension Manager to give it a try for yourself. Disclamer: This is still new and might not work properly on all browsers, it certainly will not work without websocket support. Thanks, Caleb