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

[Adam Marshall]

Page now created 

http://wiki.sakaiproject.org/display/SAKDEV/Future+Proofing+Sakai+2+Tools

can people either send me more info or just add to the page?

Adam

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Nate Angell [mailto:nate.angell at rsmart.com]
| Sent: 09 March 2010 18:11
| To: Adam Marshall
| Cc: Christian Vuerings; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
| Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] how to future-proof Sakai 2 tools?
| 
| How about locating it as a child of the main Building Sakai wiki page?
| There seem to be quite a few such general guidelines there:
| http://wiki.sakaiproject.org/display/SAKDEV/Building+Sakai+%28a.k.a.+sa
| kai-dev%29#BuildingSakai%28a.k.a.sakai-dev%29-DeveloperDocumentation
| 
| Cheers!
| 
| On Mar 9, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Adam Marshall wrote:
| 
| > I'm happy to paste in the text that Christian sent me and add nuggets
| of wisdom as and when I come across them.
| >
| > I'm not a big confluence user nor very involved with sakai 3 (which
| is v bad but there's no time) - could somebody suggest where I should
| create my page then I'll do it? I've had a look and can't see anywhere
| obvious.
| >
| > And congratulations to Nate for being the first person to suggest I
| put my money where my mouth is so-to-speak! ;)
| >
| > adam
| >
| > | -----Original Message-----
| > | From: nate.angell at rsmart.com [mailto:nate.angell at rsmart.com]
| > | Sent: 09 March 2010 17:06
| > | To: Adam Marshall
| > | Cc: Christian Vuerings; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
| > | Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] how to future-proof Sakai 2 tools?
| > |
| > | 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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