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

[nate.angell at rsmart.com]

Great suggestion Adam! As a community member, where will you start  
this wiki page? ;)

The product council would love to be able to point Sakai 2 tool  
developers toward it so they might take such future-proofing into  
account.

On Mar 9, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Adam Marshall  
<adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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