Hi Guillaume,

Of the three possible approaches that you summarized I think exposing 
XWiki as a gadget would be worthwhile looking into further.  This would 
keep XWiki separate from Sakai.  We would look at using the Shindig 
(OpenSoical) implementation as the container and then integrating XWiki as 
a gadget within an iframe within Sakai.  Does this sound reasonable? Would 
you be able to point me to some documentation regarding XWiki as a gadget 
or provide any other information that would help me in better 
understanding what would be involved with such an integration approach?

Thank you.
- 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
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[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
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