On 06/30/2010 01:15 PM, Ponder Muse wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested in trying out xwiki concerto but I am unable to download the > installer jar from its website at > http://concerto.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/DownloadAndInstall. > > Does anybody know what is the current state of the xwiki concerto project? > > I understand that xwiki concerto was a research project that ran until > sometime in 2008 and I am interested in knowing what progress there's been > on it since then (if any). i.e. does the main xwiki project now maybe > include support for replication of xwiki content in a distributed > environment? > > Any insight on this would be much appreciated!
The sources are available at https://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/concerto/ , a plain mvn install should give you a ready-to-use file in concerto-installer/target. There are no official releases of the project yet, so you'll have to build it manually. As for the state of the project, it has been mostly abandoned in a "successful" state. The goals of the project have been met, but the final result didn't prove to be ready for prime-time usage, and the promises, which sounded promising in 2007 when the project started (actually 2005 was the real start of the P2P wiki work, outside Concerto, as a Google Summer of Code project), by the time the project ended interest shifted to other domains, such as cloud computing, distributed caches, distributed databases, offline web storage (Google Gears, now part of the HTML5 family of specifications), Wave. Thus, IMO there's no real incentive to further push the P2P ideas. There hasn't been any real work in these new directions. We do have distributed caches, which allows to setup parallel servers, which offers better scalability, and this is ready to be used. There has been an initial proof-of-concept deployment as a cloud application, when Google first announced support for Java, which proved to be successful, but it wasn't expanded into a real feature so far (coming soon). So, I'd say that if you want a distributed environment, you should look into distributed caches/events, ask for further help on this mailing list. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
