RE: [Bodington-developers] The PLE

[Peter C. <Pet...@me...>]

> From: Andrew Booth [mailto:a.g...@le...]=20
> What happened to the PLE previously known as Bodington 3? I=20
> heard quite a
> bit about the xml file system, but not about the PLE.

I believe it has been renamed the Manchester PLE-VLE Framework.  We
realised during the project that it could provide a common architecture
for a PLE and one form of a VLE.  Much of the common architecture was
implemented during the project.

Owing to partial (and incompatible) implementations of the WebDAV
specification, it proved rather more difficult than expected to
implement the connection of the PLE to its host server; however, there
is a working demonstration of a persistent Tomcat 5.0 + VFS + eXist
system that would need no more installation on a target system than
downloading, unzipping, starting and ensuring nothing else is running on
its chosen port.

There was also some investigation into basing the framework around a
portal, and hence a portlet container, rather than around a servlet
container.

		- Peter