Bootcamp topics (Boston '09)

Boston morning/afternoon workshop topics

Recent feedback has suggested that the classic workshop focusing on tool development is of less value currently than ensuring that developers/sys admins understand how to run Sakai. Below are a set of draft topics (no order yet implied) that focus on Sakai configuration and administration while still providing an overview of Sakai tool/services and other capabilities (e.g., anatomy, entitybroker).

A separate 3.x afternoon workshop is also scheduled.

Topic	Highlights	Exercise
Developer Environment	Subversion, Maven, Tomcat and Eclipse setup	debugger
Tomcat anatomy	/shared, /components, /sakai, /webapps	deploy contrib tool deployment (Site Stats)
Tool/Services anatomy	project layout: api, impl, pack, tool, help; `pom.xml`, Kernel (K1), (Maven), service injection: `components.xml, also Sakai ComponentManager`; persistence: `*.hbm.xml`, Webapp: `/WEB-INF/web.xml`, `webapp/tools/tool.name.xml`
Configuration	sakai.properties	branding/identity, database, File system (binary content) and mail configuration; xsl-portal; multiple gateways
Administration	sites, realms, tools, users	realms exercise
Localization	skinning, default language	new skin
Providers	LDAP
Quartz Scheduler/Cron jobs	What they are	Extending and injecting into Quartz service
Migration	Moving from another LMS, strategies, resources available
Web services	What they are, Setup and Securing	Using them (Perl might be easiest), Extending
Entity Broker	REST	Simple entification of a tool?
Typical troubleshooting scenarios	(startup errors, Spring issues)

Resources

Quartz starter: svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/lancaster.ac.uk/quartz-example/
Web service scripts: svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/lancaster.ac.uk/webservice-scripts/
SOAP Client: http://ditchnet.org/soapclient/ (Mac only)
Soap UI http://www.soapui.org/ (Java-based, works for PC, Linux or Mac)
Migration Space: Migration