JSPs and JSPWiki (Was: [Interwiki] Web Dav)

[Murray A. <m.a...@op...>]

Bayle Shanks wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:15:16PM +0200, Alex Schroeder wrote:
> 
>>I read on the announcements of Wikimania that Janne of JSPwiki has added
>>WebDAV support.
> 
> I'm not able to be at Wikimania, unfortunately, but I see that 
> Janne's slides are quite interesting and touch on many things that
> we've been discussing (for example, he's in favor of XHTML as the
> interwiki markup format). I expect many of you will enjoy his slides:
> 
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/en/d/d9/Wikimania05-JJ1-presentation.sxi

Bayle,

Thanks for the link to Janne's slides.

For the past month or so I've been digging pretty heavily into
JSPWiki, as it might be useful in an upcoming multi-wiki project
for the OU Library. I'm still new to JSPs but have been learning
how things work via the example code as well as JSPWiki, and have
written three or four plugins (mostly as experiments), such as an
XHTML wiki page validator. I've also written a few JSPWiki templates,
but they're still buggy enough (on IE) that I've not posted them yet.

Ceryle currently has several JSPWiki instances running off of its
embedded Jetty server, and I'm at a point with Ceryle that I may
begin releasing source code to collaborators, in particular, I'm
looking for someone to assist in the move away from Java source
that is directly part of Ceryle towards more JSP-based code. For
example, I'm currently working on code within Ceryle to provide
web access to Ceryle's internal Xindice XML database, as a front
end to a bibliographic database (among other things). It currently
runs, but it uses hardcoded XHTML and I'd really prefer the whole
thing as JSPs. I'm also looking at better integrated Ceryle with
JSPWiki. I have some ideas on using the internal Topic Map engine
to map the contents of the JSPWiki pages, etc.

Considering that Ceryle has quite a lot of utility functionality,
interwiki stuff might be relatively painless using it as an
application framework, and you know that I've also been an advocate
of using XHTML as an interwiki markup format, and am still willing
to provide an DTD support as necessary for that project -- I've
still got all the source materials for XHTML modularization lying
around.

But I'm slow enough working with JSPs that at this point having
someone with some experience with them come in would be most
welcome. If there's anyone on this list who is comfortable in
JSPs and is interested in collaborating, please contact me offlist.

    http://purl.org/ceryle/

Thanks,

Murray

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