Re: incorporating JSPWiki into our peace tool

[Ronald Cole]

I will definitely do that when I am done. If anyone can drop a pointer or two as to where to begin, and any potential 'gotchas' along the way, that will be most appreciated. Thanks, Skip On Aug 10, 2008, at 5:53 AM, Janne Jalkanen wrote: Yup, I think this is a good approach.  There are quite a few people on these mailing lists who've done some work on embedding the rendering engine only.  I just wish someone wrote good instructions :-) /Janne On Aug 9, 2008, at 19:17 , Mike Cirioli wrote: The way I would look at it might be to treat the jspWiki code as an API and rendering engine that you build your app around.  That lets you control the UI and other things specific to your simulations, but still retain the underlying power of the wiki, which you can use for rendering whatever pages you need for each actor.  You could also layer your own edit system on top that should help you avoid clobbering multiple versions of an edit.  By submitting their edits to your application, you will have the control to properly feed them into the wiki, maybe as separate wiki pages using some sort of page name scheme for identification.  When you display you would just concatenate all the pages in a series and render them via the wiki, then use your app to display the resulting string of rendered wiki text -mike Skip Cole wrote: Hi, I did not mean to imply that it does. Actually that is the kind of behavior I'm trying to avoid. My problem really is that I want to cut away a lot of the wiki, so all an actor sees is the one page that is particular to them: one document accessible to a group of actors in one particular playing session of one particular simulation in one particular organization's database schema. (If I'm passing a URL to do this it might look something like this: http://peaceplatform.org?schema=usip&sim_id=1&running_sim_id=5&page_id=69&actor_id=99 ) Locating a document in our 'simulation universe' should be transparent to the user, so all of this has to be taken care of programmatically - and our tool can do just that. But presenting a document with 'wiki-like' characteristics in side of our universe is the trick. I can see I'm going to have to dig around in the code to do this. Its always just hard for me to gauge if making someone else's code is easier than just making it work myself. I don't like re-writing stuff, but sometimes it is quicker. Best, Skip On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 14:31:34 +0300  Janne Jalkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JSPWiki does not do "whoever saves last wins" - the pages are locked  while they are being edited, and people are given a strong warning  prior to editing. Is this sufficient?  You can fine-tune the policy by editing the JSP  files. /Janne On Aug 8, 2008, at 00:12 , Ronald Cole wrote: Dear JSPWiki Community Member, Here at the United States Institute of Peace we are working on a  tool to allow people to create online training simulations. It is  an open source tool, and I believe we will be incorporating the  JSPWiki into part of it. Frequently in these simulations the players will need to be working  on a shared document. We could just tell them to save and refresh  often, and that 'who ever saves last wins' but it seems that given  the availability of wiki software that we can do better than that. Players will log in to the web site where their simulation is  running, so I want to make this work for their authentication into  the wiki. (These are just training scenarios, so it is a low  security application.) Once they are in, and tab over to the page  where the shared document exists, I just want them to see a page  where they can edit, but acts kind of like a wiki: they will be  able to see previous versions, people won't be able to clobber each  other's works, it will have some sort of auto-refresh built into  it, etc. If you have any ideas or suggestions on this, please let me know. Thanks in Advance, Skip Ronald "Skip" Cole Senior Program Officer United States Institute of Peace (http://www.usip.org) (202)457-1700 ext 4717 "It should be our pride to teach ourselves as well as we can always  to speak and write as simply and clearly and unpretentiously as  possible, and to avoid like the plague the appearance of possessing  knowledge which is too deep to be clearly and simply expressed." --  Karl Popper <unknown.gif> Ronald "Skip" Cole Program Officer United States Institute of Peace (http://www.usip.org) (202)457-1700 ext 4717 “The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war” – Asian Proverb Best, Skip Ronald "Skip" Cole Senior Program Officer United States Institute of Peace (http://www.usip.org) (202)457-1700 ext 4717 "It should be our pride to teach ourselves as well as we can always to speak and write as simply and clearly and unpretentiously as possible, and to avoid like the plague the appearance of possessing knowledge which is too deep to be clearly and simply expressed." -- Karl Popper