XWiki on GlassFish TV

XWiki: What's new in 2009

Vincent Massol XWiki Committer, CTO XWiki SAS

Agenda

What is XWiki

2008 Retrospective

New Features

Qui utilise/connait ce qu'est une syntaxe wiki dans la salle?

Syntaxe wiki utile car:Permet d'etre plus rapide pour contribuer du contenu et focus sur contenu

Lisible par un humain (contrairement au HTML par ex)

What is XWiki

What is XWiki

An open source, second generation,
Enterprise Wiki




Wiki 1.0

Wiki 2.0: Intranet example (1/4)




Wiki 2.0: Course authoring/sharing (1/2)

Wiki 2.0: Course authoring/sharing (2/2)

Wiki 2.0 Characteristics

What is XWiki

An open platform for developing web applications that collaborate on content

It's also...




XWiki Components/Services

The XWiki Platform

2008 Retrospective

Downloads & Releases (2008)

Download Numbers

Release Numbers

Community Health (2008)

Messages on Mailing Lists/Forums

Subscribers @devs : 266Subscribers @users : 511Active committers : 14

New Features (March 2009)

Wiki Dashboard




New wiki syntax

Powerful syntaxEmbedded documents

Non ambiguousDouble characters for all syntax elementse.g. **bold**

Wiki syntax in links

Parameters allowed

* list item 1 ((( | cell | ((( * item1 * item2 ))) )))* list item 2

(% style="color:blue" %)= header




Polyglot

Support several syntaxesXWiki 1.0

XWiki 2.0

Confluence

MediaWiki

Creole

JSPWiki

HTML/XHTML

Easy to add new syntaxes




WYSIWYG Editor

Rewritten from scratch

Based on GWT

No loss between HTML and XWiki 2.0 syntax

Overrides native browser editors (buggy)

Advanced featuresRealtime (late 2009)

Rendered macros




Office Document Import

Uses the Open Office importerLots of supported formats

Support for spreadsheets and presentations

Cleans generated HTML

Imports in clean wiki syntax

XWiki Eclipse a.k.a XWiki IDE

Productivity Tool

Advanced usage

Offline mode

Auto completion

Syntactic coloration

Works with Confluence XMLRPC API

New Distribution: GF + JavaDB

Best of both worldsProduction-ready

Ready to use packaging

Performant

Other new features

WebDAV support for all Oses

New Blog applicationEx: http://massol.net

Balsamiq Mockup integration

REST API

Roadmap XE 2009-2010

P2P/Offline

Extension manager

New skin system + new skin

Real time WYSIWYG

Gadgets/Widgets

UI improvements

Vote and annotations on documents

Focus on document management: creation, organisation, distribution

Roadmap XEM 2009-2010

Invitation manager

User Directory

Personal Dashoards

Social Network (followers, following)

Statistics of my wikis

Focus on multi wiki and social features

Pointers

XWiki Pointers

Documentation and downloads: http://xwiki.org

XWiki dev site: http://dev.xwiki.org

Free pro hosting offered to JUGs by XWiki SAS

Free hosting for personal / non-business / non-critical projects offered by XWiki SAS on http://myxwiki.org

Professional services from XWiki SAS at http://xwiki.com

Thanks! Q&A

Technology

XWiki on GlassFish TV