On 20 Oct 2011, at 10:11, Jasha Joachimsthal wrote: > On 20 October 2011 03:41, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Currently the location of the Wookie is hard coded to a test server >> running in Oxford. Clearly this needs to be customisable. >> > > We bundle Shindig with Rave to let all the OpenSocial gadgets work. In > theory you can use an external OpenSocial compliant server. Can't we bundle > a Wookie instance with Rave? >
That should be possible - all we need is the WAR and a Rave local.widgetserver.properties file in Tomcat conf to override any defaults (e.g. virtual host settings). >> >> I've not added any W3C widgets to user screens by default as this >> should still be considered alpha. However, I have added a basic chat >> widget to the database. To test it out search for "chat" in the widget >> store and add the resulting widget to a page. >> >> If you log into a different browser or a different machiine with a >> different user and add the same widget you can chat across the >> browsers. >> > > I can confirm it works and I will show it today in our sprint demo :) The > chat session seems to be public to anyone using this widget so watch the > language. > > >> Note, this uses a SNAPSHOT Wookie-Connector. Wookie is on target to >> release this becore Rave 0.5. However, if it does not manage to do so >> we can roll back to the 0.9 release which includes the necessary code. >> > > What's the difference between 0.9 and 0.9.1-SNAPSHOT right now? There are a lot of improvements to the actual server, however the Connector only has a few small improvements. However, we're creating the 0.9.1 release artefacts today so should have the vote out soon. > > Jasha
