[Bodington-developers] update on marie and some ideas for discussion

[Selwyn L. <sel...@ph...>]

Hi all,


Marie couldn't even walk on her own by the time I got home yesterday, 
managed to get her to the docs, and she is recovering, tests have been 
done thats all we know, severe flu like symptoms.


I am really miffed to miss the various discussions, particularly about 
Tetra concepts.
We have looked at integrating with Bod and Sakai in the past and think 
that other than major hacks and lots of pain we really need to start 
discussing an open common architecture.

 From our perspective we like a number of ideas / themes wrt to 
plugability and interoperability and often discuss the potential of...

1. common portlets, common web services type architecture
 - to achieve real reuseability either the portlets and web services 
need to be self contained in terms of their config data and active data 
else see below

2. common schema, common libraries such as reuseable war and jar files.
 - a common database schema across e-learning seems far fetched, but 
across bodington, sakai, ioportal perhaps its possible to agree on at 
least a hibernate mapping. i.e. a common database abstraction layer.

Just a couple of ideas to throw into the pot today.

cheers

Sel