I have a correction, see below: On 02/06/2014 12:41 AM, Caleb James DeLisle 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
Oops: sorry about this - wrong link - I linked to the *old* wiki editor! Here's the one: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/RtWiki Thanks, Caleb > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
