[Building Sakai] Floating Chat in Portal

[Steve Swinsburg]

The chat I will be working on will be very similar to the one you've seen already. It will be a patch to portal to provide the markup, and then some components to setup the ActiveMQ messaging broker. The UI will be a little different. Initially, you'll be able to chat with your connections (which come from the Profile2 entity provider). 

I see two extensions:

1. allow a click from a user in presence to trigger a chat.
2. detect what site you are in and load that site's participant list so you can chat with people there.

cheers,
S


On 31/05/2010, at 1:51 AM, Hedrick Charles wrote:

> For Steve it's a profile2 project. For me it's a portal project. I'm proposing to do something so you can click a name in the presence list and chat with them, very much like chat in Facebook. If Steve hadn't responded to me, I probably would have used the chat code as a base, as Adrian seems to have done. However I have grave qualms about the quality and extensibility of that code. So if Steve is integrating ActiveMQ in a way that my project can use, my first reaction (without actually having tried it) is that it might be a better base.
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> I'll need a hook into the portal, but I'd guess that it won't be big enough that it absolutely has to go into the kernel. However if ActiveMQ is going to be used by more than one project, it might be worth putting it into the kernel. You'll probably want to wait and see if Steve (and possibly my student) actually come up with something.
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> On May 30, 2010, at 11:44:28 AM, csev wrote:
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>> It sounds like the ActiveMQ stuff is a you and Steve project around profile2 more than a patch to portal.
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