Sakai Framework
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According to The Organization of Sakai Enabling Technologies and Information Models by Glenn Golden (April 10, 2006), the Sakai Framework is now organized into two collections of enabling technologies:
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Functional Technologies |
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component |
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Register and find components. |
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System properties. |
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tool |
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Manage tools. |
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Access the active tools. |
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Access the session. |
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A Sakai Tool object. |
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An Active Tool object. |
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A Sakai session. |
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A tool session. |
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db |
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Database access |
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courier |
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Heartbeat, content push, etc. |
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Manage digests. |
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Send email messages. |
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memory |
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Cache your objects here. |
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presence |
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Manage who's on-line and visible. |
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jsf |
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JSF component implementations for Sun and myFaces. |
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velocity |
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The old Velocity components. |
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util |
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Defintions of general Sakai exceptions. |
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Generate UUIDs. |
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Manage local threads. |
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Sakai time management. |
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Note that the log4j.properties file is in ..util-impl/log/src/conf |
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Informational Technologies |
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entity |
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Generic Sakai objects. |
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Generic entity producer. |
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Manage Sakai objects. |
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user |
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Create and manage users. |
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External user service integration. |
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A Sakai user. |
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User metadata. |
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User authentication. |
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Passwords, etc. |
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Manage user preferences. |
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Preference properties. |
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authz |
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Register and manage authz functions. |
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Allows policy overrides. |
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Resolve permission questions. |
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Permissions by groups. |
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The basic authorization group (realm). |
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External group service integration. |
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Group membership. |
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Group roles. |
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context |
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Currently handled by sites. To be broken out later. |
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event |
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Track events using this service. |
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A Sakai event. |
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Manage usage sessions. |
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Manage notification. |
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A notification. |
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course-management |
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Course management. |
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https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/alias/trunk |
alias |
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An alias |
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Manage resource aliases. |
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site |
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A Sakai site. |
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A site page. |
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A tool configuration including skin, etc. |
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Manage sites. |
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A site group. |
These groupings reflect the actual organization of the code. In some cases, top level modules will also include tools that maniuplate the data for administrative purposes.