[Building Sakai] Back to Sakai

[Mark J. Norton]

I recently wondered about RSF myself, so I asked Antranig Basman 
(architect and developer of RSF) this question, "Do you want the older 
form of RSF to be promoted as a viable UI framework?".  His reply:

    /I'm certainly happy to support any users of existing RSF tools -
    anyone with questions or problems should definitely mail me
    directly, since I am not subscribed to the Sakai lists. However I
    think it would be best if we didn't encourage any further
    development - I'm trying to remain focused on developing the ideas
    of RSF beyond the level that they could reach in Java, and after 5+
    years of work I think things are starting to come together.//
    /

So you can see that Java-RSF will continue to be supported as far as bug 
fixes go, but Antranig has moved RSF over to JavaScript, where it is 
part of Fluid's Kettle project.  Personally, I though the Java form of 
RSF was great, so I'm a bit sorry to see that he has no further plans 
for it.  Still, the current version is quite stable.  If you want to use 
it to enhance older code ... go for it.

Probably the easiest way to bring your app up to date is to install 
Sakai 2.9.3 and add your app to it.  Likely it will break, but the 
errors should guide you to fixing it.  If you get stuck, ask this list.

- Mark Norton
   Nolaria Consulting

On 9/20/2013 8:19 AM, Virgílio Santos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been part of a team which developed a sakai tool back in
> 2009-2010. It was all developed in RSF.
>
> Now we are back to build a administrative tool to backup the one we
> build in 2010. So, I entered on RSF wiki
> (http://rsf.fluidproject.org/wiki) and figured out it is not being
> maintained anymore and considering I did not got in touch with Sakai
> since 2010, It will be very kind and useful if someone give me any
> hints on how to proceed with the project considering that:
>
> 1 - I want to 'port' the application from 2.5.x to the newest and
> supported sakai version
> 2 - If it's possible, I wish to keep using RSF, but it's far from to
> be a blocking issue
> 3 - Since I'm not a internship anymore, I wish to do it in a hurry, so
> any hint about how to speed up my  re-entrance will be very well
> accepted!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> VIrgílio Santos
> http://escola.mupi.me
>

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