[Building Sakai] Creating new tools: Sakai CLE or Sakai OAE

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

If you want to use a Sakai product for production use right now, you 
should try Sakai CLE 2.8. Sakai OAE's product page 
http://sakaiproject.org/node/2307 only shows Sakai OAE Q1 (0.1 version) 
which is explicitly not intended for production use.

If you're not hurried, you could wait for Sakai OAE version 1, which is 
expected on August 15, 2011 (see 
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/3AK/OAE+Home). You will then 
be able to check which product is best for you.

As far as I know, there is no documented way to migrate from CLE to OAE 
and no team is working on it yet. Because the products are different and 
both are community driven, you cannot expect it unless enough members of 
the community want spend resources on this.

There might be institutions that will be using CLE and OAE for some time 
if they need the features of both.

Regards,
J-F

On 05/08/2011 03:21, Rafael Morales wrote:
> Interesting question. I may need to re-read the documentation but, what
> would it be the profile for an institution that would prefer to stick to
> CLE instead of moving to OAE? Of course, there would be more
> difficulties/uncertainties in migrating to OAE but, anything else?
>
> Regards,
> Rafael
>
> El 04/08/2011 12:36 p.m., Bryan Holladay escribió:
>> Sakai 3 was changed to Sakai OAE (Open Academic Environment) and Sakai
>> CLE (Collaborative Learning Environment) is the one that's in a 2.x
>> state. This is to distinguish the fact that Sakai OAE isn't a
>> replacement for Sakai CLE.
>>
>> All the information given to you was for Sakai CLE. If you're planning
>> on using CLE, then you should develop for it.
>>
>> -Bryan
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Rafael Morales
>> <rmorales at udgvirtual.udg.mx <mailto:rmorales at udgvirtual.udg.mx>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello:
>>
>>     My guess is that this also applies to 2.7.x, but what about Sakai
>>     3? We are starting on developing support in Sakai for a web
>>     service providing access to competence-maps, so that we can
>>     provide automatic rubric generation, activity design support, and
>>     other functionalities. We are wondering whether it would be better
>>     to develop for Sakai 2.7 or Sakai 3. What would you suggest?
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Rafael
>>
>>     El 03/08/2011 07:29 p.m., Steve Swinsburg escribió:
>>>     Definitely check out one of the quickstart's as Bryan listed below.
>>>
>>>     You'll need to get a development environment up and running. See
>>>     here:
>>>     https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BOOT/Sakai+Programmer+Manual
>>>
>>>
>>>     Here is a summary I wrote for a bootcamp I held recently:
>>>
>>>        1. Install Subversion (1.6).
>>>        2. Install Java (1.6).
>>>        3. Install Maven (2.2.1, not 3 unless you are working on Sakai
>>>           trunk).
>>>        4. Download and unpack Tomcat (5.5.33, not 6 or 7 yet). You
>>>           will probably end up with multiple instances of Tomcat so
>>>           arrange your workspace accordingly.
>>>        5. Configure environment variables.
>>>        6. Check out the Sakai source code.
>>>        7. Build the source code and deploy into Tomcat.
>>>        8. Setup your database for Sakai
>>>        9. Configure sakai.properties.
>>>       10. Start Tomcat.
>>>
>>>     Most of this is covered in the comprehensive Sakai Install Guide,
>>>     please read this: external link:
>>>     https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+CLE+2.8+Release+Notes
>>>
>>>     It covers the initial installation and configuration of Maven and
>>>     the setup of the environment variables.
>>>
>>>
>>>     cheers,
>>>     Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On 04/08/2011, at 2:22 AM, Bryan Holladay wrote:
>>>
>>>>     There are a few ways to get started quickly.
>>>>
>>>>     Maven archetype (credit Steve Swinsburg)
>>>>     https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BOOT/Sakai+Wicket+Maven+Archetype
>>>>
>>>>     Eclipse App Builder: (credit Aaron Zechoski)
>>>>     https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BOOT/Sakai+App+Builder
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Just a personal preference, but the Sakai Wicket Maven Archetype
>>>>     is the quickest, but if you don't know wicket, then you have the
>>>>     learning curve. Eclipse app builder has RSF, JSF, JSP and Wicket
>>>>     for it's options but takes a lot more setup to get started
>>>>     (compared to maven archetype).
>>>>
>>>>     There may be something else out there too, this is just off the
>>>>     top of my head.
>>>>
>>>>     -Bryan
>>>>
>>>>     ps... sorry to reply twice, I meant to reply all to include the
>>>>     dev list
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Khalid Qureshi
>>>>     <kq2119 at columbia.edu <mailto:kq2119 at columbia.edu>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         Hi,
>>>>
>>>>         I am a Java developer in Columbia University and I am
>>>>         assigned to develop a new tool in Sakai.
>>>>
>>>>         I searched thru documents in Sakai confluence and Google but
>>>>         did not get clear idea.
>>>>
>>>>         So I am looking for some help regarding new tool development
>>>>         in Sakai, since I have very
>>>>
>>>>         Short amount of development time. I will appreciate if
>>>>         someone can response to me. Thanks
>>>>
>>>>         Khalid Qureshi