[Building Sakai] Sakai tool installer

[Steve Swinsburg]

There is a project in contrib that is along similar lines:

Contrib: Sakai Installer
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SAKINST/Home

... an installer that does two things: it check for and installs a Java JRE and it starts a demo version of Sakai that is placed on the stick alongside the installer. Once started, Sakai runs entirely from the stick. The database is HSQLDB, which is stored on the stick itself. That means you can start Sakai from the stick, create users, sites, resources etc and than plug the stick into a different computer and find Sakai in the exact state that you left it in.

The source for the Sakai installer is in contrib: https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib//sakai-installer/


cheers,
Steve


On 23/03/2010, at 12:42 AM, David Haines wrote:

> Is anyone interested in a BOF at the conference on building a Sakai tool "installer"?  This functionality has been suggested for years but never has happened.  We should figure out if it is easy and then do it, or figure out how to make it easy.
> 
> The basic hope is that someone could, at worse, create a text file that lists appropriate tools and the installer would assemble a Sakai image that could be deployed into Tomcat.  An imaginary example is below:
> 
> Sakai-base-2.7.3
> blogwow-1.2.3
> disabler-tool-0.5
> autojoin-umich-0.1
> 
> Even with a UI as boring as a text editor this would make creating a Sakai installation easier.
> 
> - Dave
> 
> David Haines
> CTools Developer
> Digital Media Commons
> University of Michigan 
> dlhaines at umich.edu
> 
> 
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