[Building Sakai] Sakai's External Integration

[csev]

Raj,

These services exist. Here is some sample code that might give you some patterns:

https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/portlets/trunk/sakai-dash/

https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/portlets/trunk/sakai-launch/

The code might be a little old.  Here is some more documentation you might find helpful:

https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/reference/trunk/docs/architecture/sakai_charon.doc

You might also be interested in using Basic LTI to do this with a simple shared secret instead of web services, making sessions, etc - it is more secure and performs better and has much cleaner security.

https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/basiclti/trunk/basiclti-docs/resources/docs/sakai_basiclti_provider.doc

And Steve Swinsberg is the master of using this - he has a uPortal portlet somewhere that does this retrieve/launch completely awesomely.   His stuff is much more modern than the portlets I wrote a whlie back.

Also Lance Speelmon has done a masterful job in using Basic LTI Provider in Sakai CLE to plug it into Sakai OAE.

Many choices :)

/Chuck

On Jan 24, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Raj Muthusamy wrote:

> Dear Sakai Developers,
>  
> I’m new to Sakai and exploring various options. I have to integrate Sakai with an external web application. Here is what I’m trying to do.
> -          Call Sakai’s Web Services to pull list of available Courses and publish dynamic URLs (that will launch an external web app) into selected Courses.
> -          When the URL is clicked, pass user name (encrypted) to the external app through QueryString.
> -          Call another Web Services method on Sakai server to make sure the user’s session is still valid to achieve SSO integration.
>  
> Please let me know if there are Web Services already available to perform these tasks above. Any examples and/or documentation would be greatly appreciated.
>  
> Thanks,
> Raj
>  
>  
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