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

[Adam Marshall]

would the community be prepared to start a confluence page on this topic? 

I think the question will be raised more and more as we speed forward.

Adam

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Christian Vuerings [mailto:vueringschristian at gmail.com]
| Sent: 08 March 2010 22:32
| To: Adam Marshall
| Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
| Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] how to future-proof Sakai 2 tools?
| 
| 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?
| >
| > Adam
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