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