[Building Sakai] Upgrade Pluto version to 1.1.7 for Sakai 2.8 - SAK-19011

[Mustansar Mehmood]

  Hi Chuck,
               Well I do understand the complexities of upgrading to 
pluto 2.0.x as it may break some stuff. And this may not be the best 
time to make this upgrade happen.On the other hand it may be necessary 
to move to 1.1.7 before leaping towards 2.0.x However the upgrade
  will introduce a lot of AJAX related features as well as Java 5 
features as well.
Sakai has a lot of pending upgrades like tomcat spring and jUnit(I think 
jUnit is partially done I have seen some poms here and there with jUnit 
3.x), some of them may get a better course of upgrade because of.
As far as calling one tool from another tool is concerned JSR 268 is a 
little help directly as sakai perhaps moved away from JSR168 to adapt 
AJAX for helpers and gadgets.
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SAKDEV/Helpers+and+Gadgets+within+Sakai 


Thanks,
Mustansar



On 08/22/2010 09:51 AM, csev wrote:
>
> On Aug 22, 2010, at 6:57 AM, Mustansar Mehmood wrote:
>
>> Hi Chuck,
>>                No particular concern but perhaps Pluto 2.0.x  could 
>> bring a taste of JSR 286 into sakai?
>> http://portals.apache.org/pluto/v20/release-notes-2.0.0.html
>> Regards,
>> Mustansar
>
> Mustansar,
>
> Thanks for your comment.
>
> I would love to move to Pluto 2.0 and support JSR-286 - but that is 
> more like 2 months of effort versus 45 minutes of effort needed to go 
> from 1.1.2 to 1.1.7.  The good news is that some of the changes in 
> 1.1.2 to 1.1.7 were re-factor prepping for 2.0.
>
> It might be something to consider for 2.9, but for me I would like to 
> see some evidence that folks are really using the features of 286 
> beyond 168 (i.e. eventing, etc).  I can imagine that the 286 features 
> would be useful, but the question to me is if and how they are being used.
>
> I would love to see a good example of how JSR-286 can be used to solve 
> the Sakai "helper" problem where one tool wants to temporarily invoke 
> another (like a file picker) and then get a picked file back.  It 
> would seem as though eventing would be ideal for this and I would love 
> to see an example.
>
> /Chuck
>


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