[Building Sakai] how to future-proof Sakai 2 tools?

[Christian Vuerings]

Adam,


AFAIK we don't really have guidelines for that at the moment.

But maybe the following pointers/hints could help:

If you include the tool in an iframe (that's how we are currently doing it)
 - Don't load the CSS from the parent frame dynamically.
   We currently have an issue standing open for that. [1]
 - This is probably standard in every Sakai2 tool, but make sure you call the setMainFrameHeight function on loading the tool (for resizing the iframe height)

If you want to access the data in Sakai3:
 - Make your tool accessible via REST calls and supports JSON (XML could work as well but it will be a bit slower). (e.g. [2])
   This would enable you to create a native Sakai3 widget that accesses the Sakai2 REST services.

IMO most of the current tools should already work within Sakai3 since we are just using iframes to load them.


Christian

[1] http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAKIII-94
[2] http://sakai3-nightly.uits.indiana.edu:8080/sakai-hybrid/sites


On 8 Mar 2010, at 17:33, Adam Marshall wrote:

> Are there guidelines on how to write a Sakai 2 tool so it will fit with Sakai 3? 
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