[Building Sakai] Chat Tool

[Adrian Fish]

Try these steps:

1. Check out the service (sfc-service): svn co  
https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/lancaster.ac.uk/sfcservice/trunk 
portal-chat
2. change to the portal-chat directory
3. Run mvn clean install sakai:deploy" from the root directory of the 
checked out code. That will install the chat service into the components 
directory of your Sakai instance.
3. Restart Sakai
4. Point your browser at http://localhost/direct and you should see a 
restful target of portal-chat. This means the service installed 
successfully.
5. patch -p0 < floating_chat.patch
6. rebuild your Sakai source code
7. Restart Sakai.

That should do it. If others are interested in floating chat in their 
2.8s, and probably 2.7s I could massage these emails into a confluence page.

Cheers,
Adrian.

On 03/10/2011 12:14, Nkululeko Phakela wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> Thank you for the reply. I'm still learning the ins and outs of
> developing/modifying/adding new tools to Sakai.
>
> So I will do a checkout of the floating chat, followed by doing the
> patch in the sakai source directory. Then I do mvn install sakai:deploy
> after this? Then I will have my floating portal chat? I like it and
> would definitely like to have it running on my instance.
>
> Thanks again,
> Nguni
>
>
> On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 12:09 +0100, Adrian Fish wrote:
>> I'll have a go ...
>>
>> Patches in Sakai are based on Subversion diff files. If you check out
>> the Sakai source code, modify it and then type svn diff in the modified
>> directory, piping the output into a file called ngunis_changes.patch,
>> the file will detail the changes you made. Someone else can then take
>> that file and import the changes in their own copy of the Sakai source
>> code using the command:
>>
>> patch -p0<  ngunis_changes.patch
>>
>> The good thing about patching is that only certain areas of the target
>> file are modified, the rest stays the same as when you checked it out.
>> If you just replaced the target file completely with another version you
>> run the risk of getting an old, out of date source file.
>>
>> Unless you code Sakai I suppose most of this will be making you scratch
>> your head. Don't, or you'll start going bald like me. I've attached the
>> patch file for you to have a play with.
>>
>> First change into the root directory of your Sakai source code
>> cd SAKAI_SRC
>>
>> Then merge the patch in
>> patch -p0<  floating_chat.patch
>>
>> See how you go,
>>
>> Cheers again,
>> Adrian.
>>
>> On 03/10/2011 11:53, Nkululeko Phakela wrote:
>>> Hi Adrain,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply. I will take a look. I'm not yet sure how patches
>>> work in Sakai. Could you advise?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nguni
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 11:37 +0100, Adrian Fish wrote:
>>>> Hi Nguni,
>>>>
>>>> We are running a version of the 2.9 chat on our 2.8.x at Lancaster. It's
>>>> more or less the same.
>>>>
>>>> The EB service code is here:
>>>>
>>>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/lancaster.ac.uk/sfcservice/trunk
>>>>
>>>> ... but you need patches for site.vm and the additional js files. I'll
>>>> get a patch together and mail to the list later today.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Adrian.
>>>>
>>>> On 03/10/2011 09:10, Nkululeko Phakela wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I noticed on this site: http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8082/portal (it
>>>>> is down now) that there is a facebook like chat. I want to incorporate
>>>>> this chat tool into my sakai instance. I'm running 2.8.0 using tomcat
>>>>> 5.5. Where can I find the source for this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>> Nguni
>>>>>

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B66 Management School
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YW

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