On 1 September 2011 20:04, Marlon Pierce <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi all--
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> Ankur Goyal has compiled a list of gadgets (mostly simple) from the OGCE
> Gadget Container that can be ported straightforwardly into Rave. These
> include some useful ones (facebook, gmail clients, google talk) and some
> that at least have instructive potential. Do we want to include these in
> Rave trunk? If so, where? For simplicity and reliability, I suggest these
> be deployed into the Rave tomcat server under new webapp ("demo-gadgets").
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Hosting our own widgets is a very useful addition to the portal. You can add
them as static resources, but why don't we add them to the existing database
of the portal? We can either extend the existing Widget bean with fields to
contain the actual definition, thumbnail and screenshot. Or we split up the
current Widget bean: a widget that is hosted by a 3rd party and a widget we
host ourselves. Just like we have a form to add a new externally hosted
widget, we can have a form to add a new widget we want to host from the
portal with different fields because administrators should be able to
upload/paste the images and widget definition.
Then you don't need a new webapp for only hosting our own widgets.
Jasha
