17 Mar
2008
17 Mar
'08
9:28 a.m.
On Mar 17, 2008, at 6:37 AM, Mingfai wrote:
hi,
I wonder if I'm the first few outside people to try XWS milestone
1. :-)
Well, I'm evaluating the XWiki series of products for my Java User
Group in Hong Kong. XWS "looks" better than XE to me and it seems
XWS allows every user to create his/her own space of blog, wiki,
photo and files, that perfectly fit my needs. I wonder:
could XWS provide public registration, and anonymous (/non-logged-
in) user access mode?
could XE actually do all XWS can do and I should use XE for public
service? In fact, I feel XE has steeper learning curve than XWS. It
seems XE does not provide individual blog, photo and file spaces
XE can do
everything. It's a second generation wiki. All XWiki
products are based on XE (and the underlying platform). For example
even if in XE you have one blog by default, nothing prevents you to
create as many as you want in the way you want them to be (you can
imagine any kind of use case).
XWS is definitely meant to be a wrapper around XE to make it simpler
and to provide a solution which is oriented towards personal work
spaces that you can share with others. XE is generic, XWS implements a
specific solution based on work groups.
Thus if XWS matches your needs you should definitely use it over XE.
Thanks
-Vincent
any pointer if I want to limit one user to create only
one space?
could anyone point me to where I may be able to customize the space
name and url? basically, the use of "Space_" as prefix look quite
odd to me and i would like to remove it. And if it is possible i
would want to make the url shorter. Currently, it's something like:
"http://mydomain.com/xwiki/bin/view/Space_username/
", i am able to remove the context "xwiki", and i suppose it
shouldn't be difficult to turn Space_username to username. It's most
desirable to turn bin/view to nothing or make it a single "folder",
e.g. remove "/bin" (i suppose the action cannot be removed.)
regarding URL, i wonder if the developers like to go to the REST-ful
direction. Some people think in REST-ful URL only resource but not
action should be put as the path. (certainly, i understand in using
Struts, some options may not be available)
Thank you very much.
Regards,
mingfai