Re: [Rapla-developers] Rapla plans

[Carlos A. V. <lo...@un...>]

Hi Christopher,

 Sorry for not answering before. About spanish translation, as you said 
the latest version we got from CVS gave us one that works fine.

About the patches we are still testing/installing rapla and hope we soon 
we can send to you the changes. Our plan is to use tomcat as container. 
One thing we made is a 'deploy' target for tomcat at build.xml. We 
intend to use Oracle 10g as backend and we almost get it (the remain 
issue is we do not see the html-exports, not sure about the cause.) Some 
of the features we would find interesting (for collaborating/doing 
ourselves) are:

(needed ones)

- Adapt rapla to use container datasources instead of its own.

- Oracle 10g schema (almost done)

('would like' ones)

- The html - export utility is great. (the dynamic view intead of 
statically generated pages is a bless) One thing that could be 
insteresting too for the html view, could be the possibility of passing 
parameters (ie some courses/resources codes) and not only a prefixed 
filter to get the hltm page. For example our administrative systems 
could tell the courses of certain student, so we can link this info with 
rapla and show him on the fly his own personalized timetable.  

- Integration with administrative and portal systems. We had taken a 
look at the rapla api and facade. Seems that it could served well for 
integartion but it will help us a lot to see one example of interacting 
with the facade. Our administrative systems hold data related with 
planning that could interact or be passed directly to rapla (and 
reverse) Or even data could be fed/imported from other sources like 
access, filemakers and the like. About portal integration we work with 
uPortal (java based) and rapla could fit well. The xml interface is the 
std way of portal channels but the actual  interface of rapla work also.

Regards

Carlos


>Hi Carlos,
>
>first I want to say sorry for not providing a version with your spanish
>translation yet. Its already included in CVS and will be availabe in the
>next few week. I'd be interested in the changes you made.
>
>Is there a possibility to provide us with the patch information?
>
>Regarding a roadmap. I'm not sure about the next features I'd like to
>write for Rapla. The biggest thing will be a rewrite of the client/server
>communication (Using a standard protocoll like xml/http)
>
>Regards
>
>Christopher