[Building Sakai] Wicket, Portlets and JSR-168

[Steve Swinsburg]

That ismy view as well. Tools can know they are on a mobile device and
present a different UI. maybe one day :)


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>wrote:

> Yea, I don't think that staying current is non trivial either,since there
> aren't many people in the Sakai community are familiar with wicket either.
> I'd hope it's easier than upgrading JSF 1.x to JSF 2 though (even JSF 1.1
> to 1.2 is seeming like a huge task). There are just those 2 wicket tools in
> core, though delegated access and dashboard are two big tools in contrib.
>
> Though with delegated access being an admin only tool isn't as big a deal
> for portlet support, but it seems like we'd want to have something in place
> for dashboard and profile2 on mobile. Though if mobile view was the
> specific goal, avoiding wicket all together and making a simplified UI
> using a different framework or client side render for mobile using direct
> might take less time than wicket portlets.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Matt and Steve - seems like a non-starter.    But one can dream :)
>>
>> It is probably more important to stay current than to have portlet
>> support.
>>
>> /Chuck
>>
>> On Dec 15, 2013, at 5:57 PM, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I was working on the Wicket portlet support a while back but it was far
>> too incomplete and unusable, and was dropped (as Matt said). It would be
>> interesting to see where this goes for Wicket 6. The current Wicket tools
>> should be upgraded to Wicket 6 at some stage. I would not recommend binding
>> tools to an older (and unsupported) version of any library, but rather have
>> time spent in improving the support going forward if we are interested in
>> it.
>> >
>> > cheers,
>> > Steve
>>
>
>
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