[Building Sakai] Create new Plugin

Marcel Drachmann drachman at inf.fu-berlin.de
Mon Jul 29 02:20:54 PDT 2013


Thanks again for your help!

I would like to use Spring 3.2 or later for the Sakai Tool. Is that 
possible or will there be conflicts with Sakai using Spring 2.x?

If it is possible, is there a sample project using Spring 3.x?

Thanks a lot!

Cheers
Marcel



On 07/22/2013 02:14 PM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
> Generally you need 3 things to turn a webapp into a sakai tool.
>
> 1) Some hooks in the web.xml to cause Sakai to detect the tool and to
> load the Sakai services into you spring context
> 2) A tool.xml to configure the Sakai tool
> 3) A servlet filter or some custom code to convert to and from the
> portal URLs (e.g. sakai-jsp-adapter)
>
> Here is an example of a spring MVC based tool.
>
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/msub/unicon.net/kaltura/trunk/
>
> -AZ
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Marcel Drachmann
> <drachman at inf.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> Hi Sakai Devs,
>>
>> I try to create a new Sakai plugin for 2.9.2 since some days, but I
>> could not find exact information on how to do it. Please point me in the
>> right direction.
>>
>> I want it to be a Spring MVC project, if that is important.
>>
>> - Sakai App Builder seems to be outdated.
>> - Sakai Spring MVC Maven Archetype goes to the right direction, but
>> without documentation I do not know which file does what and how to
>> extend it in the right way. I need more information on how to integrate
>> it with core Sakai.
>> - Sakai Sample Code seems to be outdated too.
>>
>> So please give me a hint on realiable information
>> - how to structure a new sakai plugin
>> - which files are necessary for what
>> - how to access and integrate with core Sakai.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your help!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marcel
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