Developer links and resources

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Sakai foundation website - the main website for the Sakai foundation and Sakai project
- Find information about upcoming Sakai conferences and other Sakai related news
- Find out what schools are using Sakai
- Figure out why it is called Sakai
Programmers Cafe
- The best source of information for developers wanting to work in Sakai
- Info you can find there:
  - Tutorials
  - Tips
  - Documentation
  - Sample code
sakai-dev email list
- The sakai-dev email list is a great place to ask development questions
- How sign up for sakai-dev email list
  - Use the mailman page here: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sakai-dev
- Send email to the list at: sakai-dev@collab.sakaiproject.org (membership required)
Sakai Confluence
- Sakai uses Confluence (an enterprise Wiki) to document projects and Sakai related activity
Sakai JIRA
- Sakai uses JIRA (bug tracker) for issue and bug tracking related to Sakai development
Sakai source repository (SVN)
- The Sakai source code is stored in a Subversion repository
- Main Sakai source
  - Includes the entire Sakai source plus provisional tools
- Sakai Contrib (community contributions)
  - Includes contributed source for various Sakai projects
Sakai release documentation
- Javadocs for the Sakai API
  - The Sakai API Javadocs are available with the release documents (current release javadocs (2.4.1))
    - The link to the Javadocs is a little over halfway down (link named "JavaDocs")
  - Javadocs for the trunk
Eclipse Development Environment
- The vast majority of Sakai developers use Eclipse for development
- You can use other development environments but Eclipse has some advantages:
  - Supported (eclipse files in the Sakai code base)
  - Well understood (support docs and knowledge)
  - Extended tools (appbuilder plugin)
- Can get commercial support if desired: http://www.myeclipseide.com/