[DG: Open Forum] why WSRP producer tool is deprecated from latest versions of sakai

[Steve Swinsburg]

A followup note that the next iteration of this Sakai connector portlet is a generic Basic LTI portlet. It's almost finished, a couple of local production tasks have delayed it.

We'll be using it to connect a whole suite of applications into our portal environment, many from Sakai but also Moodle and other non-LMS related applications.

cheers,
Steve



On 31/08/2010, at 11:26 PM, csev wrote:

> Chandra,
> 
> The WSRP producer work was pretty well done engineering-wise as far as it went, but it never really made it to production quality.  It was introduced in 2.1 in 1995 and we  kept it around for a few releases hoping that someone in the community would build the consumer somewhere and then invest enough in the producer to make it work.  It kept breaking as we re-structured some of the internal APIs and patterns that WSRP was using.   Since no one was using it, no one stepped up to evolve it as the Sakai code base changed around it,  There were also lots of unsolved issues like provisioning, conventions, etc.
> 
> More recently IMS Basic LTI has arrived that solved a lot of the WSRP issues that the consumer was much easier to write and has legs with real consumers built and deployed in Sakai, Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT, Desire2Learn, OLAT and others.
> 
> As part of the Sakai 2-3- transition, Lance Speelmon invested a lot in Sakai's Basic LTI provider, thinking carefully through not just the protocol bits but also the higher level issues and greatly improved the functionality and quality of Sakai's Basic LTI provider.
> 
> As Steve says in his response, it is a pretty simple matter to drop it into  JSR-168 portal.  I would caution you a bit, in that Steve's portlet is a way to connect *Sakai* into a JSR-168 - not a way to connect *any* Basic LTI provider into Sakai.   He has some particular extensions/conveniences that he adds to the portlet to improve the provisioning experience over stock Basic LTI.  The actual launching is done with stock Basic LTI.
> 
> That said, within the code of Steve's portlet *is* the essential code for a generic JSR-168 portlet that implements generic Basic LTI Consumer that would work with any provider if you were interested in that.
> 
> Given that Basic LTI seems to have a lot more vitality, it seems wisest at this point to invest our efforts there.
> 
> /Chuck
> 
> 
> On Aug 31, 2010, at 5:54 AM, chandra sekhar wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Why WSRP producer tool is deprecated from latest versions of sakai.
>> 
>> I want to integrate the sakai-2.7 wht liferay. So what is approach I need to follow. Please help me.
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Chandra Sekhar
>> 
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