the new architecture for collaboration brent mcconnell david lapalomento
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Publish• Process by which information/knowledge is codified for
others• Experience, education, wisdom, data transformed into
information • Many forms
o Blog, Wiki, Document, Webpage• Potential for collaboration (Collaboration Objects)
Discovery
• Finding the needle in the haystack• Search
o Wisdom of the Crowdo Indexed Search
• Shared• Recommendation
o Intelligent systems
Discuss
• Information is being processed and better understoodo IMo Emailo Discussion Forums
• Communication or other publications may be required
Extend
• Information is understood and has been extended into your scenarios
• Information is now being reused and extended in new ways
What is Collaboration
• Working together with others to achieve a common goal• No hidden agendas• Requires open and trusting relationships between parties• Probably includes some form of "play" and must be
accepted• Mandatory in the Knowledge Economy
Implementing Collaboration
• Communicate with the users• User training• Document successes• Balancing pre-population with organic growth• Creating incentives with recognition and reward => positive
reinforcement creates a grass-roots movement • Providing users with ongoing support• Learn from mistakes => Be flexible in the tool's evolution
Kablink Project
• Provides tools that meet the needs of the Collaboration Cycle – Publish – blogs, wikis, forums, – Search – integrated search across everything, share
with others in system– Discuss – survey, forums, comments– Add value – tags, ratings, editorial comment– Extend - create new business types, business
workflows (new this week :-)
Extensions
• Fully-integrated Kablink objectso Searchableo Trackableo Sharableo Persistent
• Simple, distributable deploymento Java .war file
Getting Started
• Model-View-Controller Paradigmo Definitions and templates make up Kablink's modelo Kablink provides default controllers for all the objects
it manages• Create a Java web application project• Public resources at the .war root• Place system resources (i.e. definitions and
templates) off of /WEB-INF
Model: Definitions
• Define the fields that create an object and its representationso Form: object creation
• OSCON Sessiono Start Timeo End Timeo Titleo Speakers
Model: Definitions (cont.)
• Use Form & View Designer to create your definitiono Customize the default form, entry and summary
views
Model: Definitions (cont.)
• Export the completed definitionso The deployer will find them anywhere
but they probably end up in the WEB-INF directory of your project
Model: Templates
• Hierarchies of objects• Site Administration > Form and View Designers to create templates
• Export completed templates
View: JSPs
• Create a custom JSP to display more complex objects
• <blink:url />: add the URL to a resource off the root of your war as an attribute to the contained XML element
• <blink:attachment />: add the URL of any file attachment as an attribute to the contained XML element
View: Enhancements
• Include additional client-side enhancements:o Javascripto Flasho Imageso Et cetera
• Reference them via <blink:url /> in your JSP
Remote Applications
• Integrate existing web-tools• Utilize existing development expertise
o Web frameworkso Programming languages
• Integrated security model o Remote Application is registered as a principal in
systemo Can apply ACL to a specific remote applicationo Lesser of user or application permissions are applied
• Still under development
View: Callback
• Remote applications appear inline, like regular objects
• Kablink calls to your application to provide a view snippet
• Post to your URLo User info in posto Respond with HTML fragment
Model: SOAP
• Use SOAP calls to manipulate other kablink objectso http://example.com/ssr/ws
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