Hi Guillaume, Thank you for getting back to my inquiry into XWiki integration with Sakai. The three options you mentioned are very helpful to understand. Embedding XWiki within Sakai was the option we were leaning towards, but integration through gadgets is also an interesting option that we didn't consider. I would need to look into this further. Part of the difficulty in weighing the best approach to take is on the Sakai side where there is an ongoing new development effort that will have a significantly modified architecture for Sakai that will support gadgets and an interim effort to modify the current Sakai implementation to integrate a new wiki into. The ideal goal would be to have a solution that addresses the current Sakai version that can be retrofitted into the new Sakai version. I'm going to need to investigate this further and will need get back to you.
Thank you again for your reply. - Adam Adam Hocek Information Technology Marist College tel: 845-575-3948 From: Guillaume Lerouge <[email protected]> To: XWiki Developers <[email protected]> Date: 03/01/2010 12:29 PM Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] considering integration of XWiki with Sakai Sent by: [email protected] Hi Adam, On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Adam Hocek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am a developer at Marist College. We are an active member of the Sakai > (sakaiproject.org). Sakai is an open source Collaboration and Learning > Environment that supports many tools for collaboration. There is currently > a wiki in Sakai called rWiki based on Radeox wiki. rWiki is somewhat > limited and there is interest to investigate an alternative wiki option > that we might integrate with. > Ok. XWiki is an option that we are considering and wanted to reach out to the > XWiki community to see if this was something of interest. Sakai is also > developed in Java and makes sense to use XWiki's Java API. I think at > this point in time we would like to see if a similar integration with > another product has been done before and also to see if we could get > support from the XWiki community for issues that arise during the > integration process. > I'm sure that XWiki devs would be happy to answer your questions and point you to the relevant resources when it comes to integrating it with Sakai. There are 3 potential level of integration that I can see: - Embed XWiki as a whole into Sakai with a custom-built interface - Expose XWiki through gadgets and keep the wiki separated from Sakai - Use XWiki's rendering + WYSIWYG editor modules to build a simple wiki inside Sakai Which of those options sounds best to you? As for similar integrations, I remember a member of the community integrated XWiki with magnolia, and there's also part of an integration with eXoPortal if that is of any help. Guillaume > Any feedback would be appreciated. > > - Adam > > Adam Hocek > Information Technology > Marist College > tel: 845-575-3948 > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki SAS Skype: wikibc Twitter: glerouge http://guillaumelerouge.com/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
