[xwiki-users] XWiki micro applications
Hello, I'm thinking about introducing XWiki as as general intranet system in the the company I work for. Currently we have a dozens different tables, list etc. mostly in Excel, wich are used (or better abused) as shared task list, inventory list and a lot more. In other words: Quite a mess!
From the docs, it appears the XWiki platform provides some functionality for creating such micro application directly in XWiki. Has anybody actually made any experiences (good or bad) in implementing them in a small (50 users) enterprise environment?
Thanks, Stefan
On Jan 26, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Stefan Rebsamen wrote:
Hello,
I'm thinking about introducing XWiki as as general intranet system in the the company I work for. Currently we have a dozens different tables, list etc. mostly in Excel, wich are used (or better abused) as shared task list, inventory list and a lot more. In other words: Quite a mess!
From the docs, it appears the XWiki platform provides some functionality for creating such micro application directly in XWiki. Has anybody actually made any experiences (good or bad) in implementing them in a small (50 users) enterprise environment?
Sure we do that all the time. For a brief introduction you can check for example this article: http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=XWiki Or these tutorials: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Tutorials Thanks -Vincent
Stefan, is a web-platform what you meant when asking a "micro-application". I have a feeling that you might expect something more such as desktop platforms. If a web-platform is what you meant then Vincent is definitely right. I am currently implementing a similar work (on i2geo.net) and it works well. paul Le 26 janv. 08 à 18:37, Vincent Massol a écrit :
From the docs, it appears the XWiki platform provides some functionality for creating such micro application directly in XWiki. Has anybody actually made any experiences (good or bad) in implementing them in a small (50 users) enterprise environment?
Sure we do that all the time.
For a brief introduction you can check for example this article: http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=XWiki
Hi Vincent, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Jan 26, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Stefan Rebsamen wrote:
for creating such micro application directly in XWiki. Has anybody actually made any experiences (good or bad) in implementing them in a small (50 users) enterprise environment?
Sure we do that all the time.
For a brief introduction you can check for example this article: http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=XWiki
Or these tutorials: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Tutorials
Very useful links indeed !! I've kept my hands of using XWiki for applications mainly because I want to reduce applications maintenance problems caused by changes between XWiki versions (if there's any) to a minimum . So, my question are : are there any artifact (class, macro, etc.) that should be avoided to maximize application compatibility between XWiki versions ?? Any other considerations to be aware of ?? Thanks ins advance. -- Víctor A. Rodríguez (http://www.bit-man.com.ar) El bit Fantasma (Bit-Man) - Algorithm junkie Perl Mongers Capital Federal (http://cafe.pm.org/) GNU/Linux User Group - FCEyN - UBA (http://glugcen.dc.uba.ar/)
Hi Ricardo,
Hi Vincent,
Vincent Massol wrote:
On Jan 26, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Stefan Rebsamen wrote:
for creating such micro application directly in XWiki. Has anybody actually made any experiences (good or bad) in implementing them in a small (50 users) enterprise environment?
Sure we do that all the time.
For a brief introduction you can check for example this article: http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=XWiki
Or these tutorials: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Tutorials
Very useful links indeed !! I've kept my hands of using XWiki for applications mainly because I want to reduce applications maintenance problems caused by changes between XWiki versions (if there's any) to a minimum . So, my question are : are there any artifact (class, macro, etc.) that should be avoided to maximize application compatibility between XWiki versions ??
If you develop applications inside the wiki - using scripting and the xwiki API, as described by those tutorials - you won't experiment API breakages when upgrading XWiki's version ; and so no reason your apps stops working. Also, if you start writing Java plugins that uses non-API internal XWiki classes, then compatibility between versions cannon be guaranteed (also those breakages has been for now pretty rare, as far as I've been using XWiki). Is this correct ? Jerome.
Any other considerations to be aware of ??
Thanks ins advance.
-- Víctor A. Rodríguez (http://www.bit-man.com.ar) El bit Fantasma (Bit-Man) - Algorithm junkie Perl Mongers Capital Federal (http://cafe.pm.org/) GNU/Linux User Group - FCEyN - UBA (http://glugcen.dc.uba.ar/)
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Hi Stefan, You spotted what XWiki is about. It is particularly for doing this. For example in our intranet we now have: - employee contract builder - human resource information for employees - expense report application - sales crm including account, project, contact and task manager - invoice management application We plan to have a few more in the future including holidays management, customer help desk and support site and if we can find the time a proposal builder. Ludovic Stefan Rebsamen wrote:
Hello,
I'm thinking about introducing XWiki as as general intranet system in the the company I work for. Currently we have a dozens different tables, list etc. mostly in Excel, wich are used (or better abused) as shared task list, inventory list and a lot more. In other words: Quite a mess!
From the docs, it appears the XWiki platform provides some functionality for creating such micro application directly in XWiki. Has anybody actually made any experiences (good or bad) in implementing them in a small (50 users) enterprise environment?
Thanks, Stefan
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"Víctor A. Rodríguez" -
Jerome Velociter -
Ludovic Dubost -
Paul Libbrecht -
Stefan Rebsamen -
Vincent Massol