Re: [WebMacro-user] Re: [ocjug] Announcement: WebMacro Wiki Release

[Eric B. R. <eb...@tc...>]

(sorry for the cross-posting.... Lane started it!)

On 5/25/04 11:18 AM, "Lane Sharman" <la...@op...> wrote:

> c) our wiki supports url terms: http:, ftp:, img:, and I think a few
> others. Therefore, you can easily reference such content within a page
> without knowing the ugly syntax of img tag, for example.

WM Wiki also supports "pluggable" URL's, w/o making changes to the
JavaCC-based parser.  This is really useful if you're trying to integrate WM
Wiki into an internal intranet of some kind.

To use a software-development example, you can easily invent a URL named
"cvs://", which might be used by a normal user like so:

    View this file in CVS:  cvs://src/org/webmacro/servlet/WMServlet.java

From here, you've got a little bit of code behind the scenes (a subclass of
URLRenderer) that hand-parses this "cvs://" url, and generates the hyperlink
to the actual http:// location.

Another example might be a url like this:
    document://3456-789

With code behind it to generate a hyperlink to view this particular document
in your CMS.

The point is, it's pretty easy to extend WM Wiki to fit into your existing
web environment, even tho WM Wiki is another web-app.

eric