This is timely! I'm currently retrofitting ILIAS3, another Learning
Management System, with SCA so that I can talk to it with a Flex
client. I looked at Dokeos, but settled on ILIAS3 because it provides
some features Dokeos doesn't.
Fortunately for me, ILIAS3 already exposes much of its functionality
through service classes, so all I have to do is get rid of the
thousands of lines of code stacked up around those to make them work
with nuSOAP.
On Apr 25, 10:32 am, Caroline Maynard <c...@php.net> wrote:
> This is timely! I'm currently retrofitting ILIAS3, another Learning
> Management System, with SCA so that I can talk to it with a Flex
> client. I looked at Dokeos, but settled on ILIAS3 because it provides
> some features Dokeos doesn't.
> Fortunately for me, ILIAS3 already exposes much of its functionality
> through service classes, so all I have to do is get rid of the
> thousands of lines of code stacked up around those to make them work
> with nuSOAP.
> On Apr 25, 10:32 am, Caroline Maynard <c...@php.net> wrote:
I'm also working on Dokeos, the 2.0 version that is currently in
development. I heard about the package from Yannick (lead dev dokeos)
and I'm looking how we can integrate/use SCA/SDO in Dokeos.
Regards,
Stefaan Vanbillemont
E-learning Dept.
University College Ghent - Belgium
Just to keep you informed, about our progress, Kariboe has started
testing it out (I still haven't) but is concerned about the fact that
we have to install SCA/SDO as a server "plugin", which isn't super-
suitable for an open-source web project (it means we add a requirement
for potential users, which takes out the complete range of free-
hosting users).
I am personally not really concerned about this point as I'm expecting
our implementation to offer a conditional use of the web services we
would provide (either you have SCA/SDO and it works, or you don't and
it doesn't). Most of our user base will only want to use web services
if they have their portal hosted with some kind of caring hosting
provider.
Anyway... Dokeos 2.0 is planned only for mid-2009 but I'm still
hopeful I'm going to be able to implement it for a few stuff before
the end of the north-hemisphere's summer.
Having to install SCA/SDO as a plugin and the issue with Web hosts is
something we've agonized over on numerous occasions. SCA itself is
user-land code, but it makes extensive use of SDO in the
implementation and also requires SDO for complex types. SDO is the
extension code based on Apache Tuscany C++. Unfortunately, it would
take a lot of effort to replace the SDO implementation with one in
user-land code.
It's great to hear you're making progress. I look forward to hearing
more.
Regards, Graham.
On 9 Jul, 21:53, Yannick <ywarn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just to keep you informed, about our progress, Kariboe has started
> testing it out (I still haven't) but is concerned about the fact that
> we have to install SCA/SDO as a server "plugin", which isn't super-
> suitable for an open-source web project (it means we add a requirement
> for potential users, which takes out the complete range of free-
> hosting users).
> I am personally not really concerned about this point as I'm expecting
> our implementation to offer a conditional use of the web services we
> would provide (either you have SCA/SDO and it works, or you don't and
> it doesn't). Most of our user base will only want to use web services
> if they have their portal hosted with some kind of caring hosting
> provider.
> Anyway... Dokeos 2.0 is planned only for mid-2009 but I'm still
> hopeful I'm going to be able to implement it for a few stuff before
> the end of the north-hemisphere's summer.
