Information
The South Africa Cafe will be held on April 16-20th (9am-5pm each day) in North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. The cafe bootcamp will cover Spring, Hibernate, RSF and all aspects of Sakai application/tool writing and will be a moderately paced 5-day workshop.
- Workshop Prerequisites
- Setup your laptop for the workshop: Development Environment Setup Walkthrough
- We will go through this on the first day of the workshop
- Find more help with writing Sakai apps: Sakai Programmer Manual
- Get the Sakai cafe distribution from SVN here:
https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/programmerscafe/sakai-cafe-2.3.x/ - Sakai App Builder
- Flickr images (programerscafe07za)
- Aaron's pics from South Africa
Presenters
~aaronz
~antranig
~anthony.atkins@vt.edu
Agenda
Monday |
April 16 |
9am - 5pm |
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Title |
Presenter |
Slides |
Introduction |
~aaronz, Boeta |
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Setting up Sakai |
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Lunch |
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Eclipse and debugging |
Setting Up Tomcat For Remote Debugging |
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Question and Answer (exercise catchup) |
All |
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Done for the day |
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Tuesday |
April 17 |
9am - 5pm |
Title |
Presenter |
Slides |
Sakai development |
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Introduction to Sakai and Sakai Services |
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Hello Worlds (JSP) and Sakai Tools |
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Sakai application structure |
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break |
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RSF and Spring fundamentals |
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Hello Worlds (RSF) |
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Lunch |
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Sakai services |
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User Directory Service Exercise |
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break |
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Question and Answer (exercise catchup) |
All |
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Done for the day |
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Wednesday |
April 18 |
9am - 3:30pm |
Title |
Presenter |
Slides |
Introduction to Spring, IoC, and AoP |
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Review of current Sakai Display Technologies |
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Intro to RSF |
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Lunch |
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Introduction to Hibernate and persistence |
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Sakai Persistence |
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break |
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Question and Answer (exercise catchup) |
All |
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Done for the day |
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Thursday |
April 19 |
9am - 5pm |
Title |
Presenter |
Slides |
Sakai naming tips |
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creation and structure of the crud tool |
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RSF debugging exercise |
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break |
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Presentation layer review |
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Exercise (add a page) |
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Lunch |
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Reading sakai.properties from within a tool |
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break |
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Exercise (Add a permission) |
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Configuring Sakai from Outside the Web Application |
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Sakai Deployment and Scaling (servers) (optional) |
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Question and Answer (exercise catchup) |
All |
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Done for the day |
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Friday |
April 20 |
9am - 5pm |
Title |
Presenter |
Slides |
RSF Contexts |
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Idiomatic RSF Techniques (OTP, BeanGuards, and Wrappers) |
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break |
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Exercise (OTPize model access) |
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Exercise (Protect views with Interceptors/Guards) |
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Lunch |
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Exercise (add a field) |
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Exercise (add date widget) |
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break |
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Question and Answer (exercise catchup) |
All |
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End of Workshop |
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Remaining Presentations |
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DAO review |
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Logic layer review |
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Presentation layer review |
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RSF components |
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User Preferences Code Example |
Materials
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