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Sakai Development: Post Nine

sjm62 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:51:25 +0000

In which I reach a staging point in my Sakai journey: not the end, but the beginning of the end, at least.

The full post is on my personal blog here.

Sakai Development: Post Eight

sjm62 — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:54:41 +0000

In which I have some more adventures in editing the source code reaching line 6300 of the Resources Action class, and end up on the brink of actually adding something useful to it.

The full post is on my personal blog here.

Sakai Development: Post Seven

sjm62 — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:42:47 +0000

In which I outline the development task in more detail and start working through the code. After going round in circles trying to figure out exactly what does what, I am finally able to make my first edits.

The full post is on my personal blog here.

Sakai Development: Post Six

sjm62 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:45:24 +0000

In which I finally am able to import Sakai into the eclipse IDE, the designated development environment. And at the end I am left wondering whether all the work has been worth it – I might have been better off developing with a text editor, old school style.

The full post is on my personal blog here.

Sakai Development: Post Five

sjm62 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:07:12 +0000

In which I add LDAP authentication to the test Sakai installation, and sort out a bizarre issue with the Resources tool: a complete lack of the hooks and buttons needed to add content.

The full post is on my personal blog here.

Sakai Development: Post Four

sjm62 — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:10:13 +0000

In which I finally get the test Sakai installation working, and learn about some apache modules which I have not used before which are needed to work around the problems.

The full post is on my personal blog here.

Sakai Development: Post Three

sjm62 — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:19:23 +0000

In which I work my way through the compilation of Sakai several times, ending up with a limited amount of success and experience a fair amount of frustration. This is where things start to get quite technical.

The full post is on my personal blog here.

Sakai Development: Post Two

sjm62 — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:59:30 +0000

The virtual host is now operational, so it is time to start setting up the environment for installing the Sakai CLE (2.8.2) from source. Lots of fairly technical detail as to how I set up java, tomcat, mysql and so on. The full details are available on my personal blog.

Sakai Development: Post One

sjm62 — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:06:38 +0000

A short post in lieu of not yet having a development environment available. The full content is available on my personal blog.

Sakai Development Diary – Prelude

sjm62 — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:53:41 +0000

My next major job will be to write an extension to the Sakai research environment software which enables the deposit of material from Sakai to some SWORD2 compliant repository. (SWORD2 is a protocol for the deposit of digital materials into repositories, so this is a reasonably sensible project to undertake.)

My Sakai background is negligible, so I will be starting from scratch. I have had a look round the Sakai website, and had a chat to some people who know the system better than I do, and have not been left much wiser than when I started. This is really the reason behind this diary: it does not look easy to pick up the information that is needed to start developing for Sakai, and documenting how I went about it and what worked should therefore be helpful to the Sakai community.

First Impressions

In which I look at the online information about Sakai and SWORD2, with an eye to finding the information needed for development work.

For more go here.