Hi guys,
This is my first post, so I am sorry if I am posting it to the wrong email list.
I am currently working on a PhD at the University of Western Australia and am
interested in using a Wiki to manage all of my references/publications. I have
used Confluence before, however I have decided to switch to XWiki because it's
open source and I can make the changes I want (and contribute them back to the
group).
For a bit of background I am currently a Senior Software Engineer for a
software company in Perth Western Australia, and I have had experience using
Hibernate, Velocity, Struts and some JEE architectural work.
What I plan to do is build two applications/plugins that will run inside XWiki
with some interaction between them. I want to create a Class and associated
editors for storing/retrieving all of my citations (in BibTeX format). Once I
have done that I would also like to create an editor that allows me to create
papers in LaTeX format and render them using the LaTeX -> XHTML converter,
allowing me to work on my papers from home, work or uni.
To get started I have a few questions, I will start with just the one and I
expect to be asking more as time goes on :-)
1. I have used the FAQ tutorial to create a new "Class" for rendering the FAQ
pages however my BibTeX pages need a bit more structure than one class.
Basically I expect two objects to be persisted in the database, a BibTeX header
and an object that represents the type (in a map I assume). Each entry type
(paper, confrence proceeding, book, URL etc.) has different fields that are
mandatory and are able to be set. I imagine I would have a simple Interface
called BibTexData that is associated with a BibTexEntry, and put the correct
version in depending on what it is. It is feasable that I want to change the
"type" after the page is created (as most decent BibTeX database applications
allow me to do). How do I design this using the class editor wizard, or am I
better off creating this structure manually in the hibernate mappings and code?
Cheers,
Aidan (aidos)
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