Hi Caleb,

I’ve just tried and it works well! Well done this is very cool :)

Now if we want to make this production-ready we would need (IMO) at least one 
additional feature which is the ability to view the list of other users editing 
the page and color markers per user to show who’s adding what.

Note that I haven’t checked the code yet. Is it some prototype-quality code or 
is it following the xwiki core rules and ready for being maintained?

I guess you’ve also used some hacks for lack of UI extension points (as in the 
lock screen and on the edit screen where you added some extra text which I 
assumed you implemented in Javascript?) which would need to be added.

Thanks
-Vincent

On 6 Feb 2014 at 06:42:03, Caleb James DeLisle 
([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:

> Hi all,
>  
> I'm very pleased to announce two new extensions to come out of XWikiSAS 
> Research
> and the RESILIENCE Research project.
>  
> Number One: WebSockets in XWiki!
> If you're an extension developer like me, you want events, you want stuff in 
> the
> browser to be talking to stuff in the wiki and you don't want to be messing 
> around
> with Jetty and Tomcat and all different kinds of libraries and configuration 
> every
> time you need to write an application. You just want stuff that works.
> Here it is:
> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/WebSocket
> Include this as a dependency for your extension and the Extension Manager will
> automatically include it when users install your extension. In just a few 
> lines of
> code, your users can be chatting and collaborating through the websocket and 
> it's
> based on Netty (Special thanks to the Atmosphere project for developing 
> Nettosphere)
> so it works in all versions of Tomcat and Jetty and does not need any changes 
> to the
> front-end server, just open a port on the JVM machine and you're done.
>  
> Number Two: A new Realtime Collaborative WikiText Editor.
> Indeed this is not the first attempt at Realtime Collaborative editing but 
> perhaps
> it is the most academically amusing. Really this is a prototype to get a 
> handle on
> the technology before we make the leap into Realtime WYSIWYG. Whereas the 
> previous
> Realtime Collaborative WikiText editor had performance issues and was unable 
> to
> handle large pasted, the new editor uses a completely novel design which is 
> intended
> to not only port well to WYSIWYG editing but is implemented entirely on the 
> client
> with the server only relaying messages, making it portable to different web 
> frameworks.
>  
> Check out the Realtime Collaborative WikiText Editor here:
> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/RealTime+Wiki+Editor
>  
> or install it with the Extension Manager to give it a try for yourself.
>  
> Disclamer: This is still new and might not work properly on all browsers, it 
> certainly
> will not work without websocket support.
>  
>  
>  
> Thanks,
> Caleb
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