XWiki is a runtime platform for developing content-based web applications and structured open source enterprise wiki. It allows users to collaboratively build applications by creating custom metadata and scripts located in wiki pages. Developers can build applications using the traditional development model or XWiki's application morphing model, which leverages the wiki runtime. XWiki comes with over 700 existing extensions that can be loaded and unloaded, such as blogs, forums, and meeting managers. It aims to provide an iterative and need-based development process for collaboratively creating applications.

1. XWiki
A web development
runtime platform
Vincent Massol, CTO XWiki SAS, May 2020

2. Agenda
•XWiki is not a wiki!
•What can you develop with XWiki?
•Development Model
•Conclusion

3. XWiki is not a wiki!

4. What is XWiki? (1/2)
• A structured open source enterprise wiki

5. • A runtime platform for developing content-
based web applications
What is XWiki? (2/2)
(> 700 existing)

6. What can you develop
with XWiki?

7. Example 1: Collaborative
Web Site

8. Example 1: Collaborative
Web Site

9. Example 1: Collaborative
Web Site

10. Example 2:Write Courses
collaboratively

11. Example 3: Intranet

12. Example 3: Intranet

13. Example 3: Intranet

14. XWiki: what for?

15. http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Screenshots

16. Development Model

17. Building an Application
Traditional way (Java,
PHP, Node.js, etc)
Runtime

18. Building an Application
XWiki way - Application Morphing!
RuntimeRuntime

19. Capabilities
• Create custom metadata located in wiki pages
• Strong scripting in wiki pages
• Skinning, theming, and injection of CSS/JS in
wiki pages
• Extension Manager to load/unload extensions

20. Metadata
Title metadata
Custom comment metadata
Panel
metadata
Panel
metadata
Content metadata

21. Metadata Example
Define structure in a wiki page1 Add to a page2
3 Display using scripting

22. Copyright (c)Vincent Massol - 2012
Scripting in Pages
{{velocity}}
#set ($xwql = "where doc.content like '%welcome%'")
#foreach ($item in $services.query.xwql($xwql).execute())
#if ($request.confirm == "1")
#set ($itemDoc = $xwiki.getDocument($item))
$itemDoc.setContent($itemDoc.getContent().replaceAll(
"welcome", "bienvenue"))
$itemDoc.save("Replaced bienvenue")
* [[$item>>$item]] replaced!
#else
* [[$item>>$item]]
#end
#end
[[Replace "welcome" by "bienvenue">>?confirm=1]]
{{/velocity}}

23. Skin Extensions
CSS JS
== Grease Monkey
Skin Extensions

24. Extensions
Extensions
776
extensions
- Blog
- Meeting Manager
- Forum
- Ideas App
- LDAP auth.
- JIRA macro
- FAQ app
- Etc

25. Conclusion

26. Long tail of Apps
Excel of the
Web

27. Advantages
• Iterative, Need-based development
• Continuous Delivery & versioned
• Work collaboratively on creating applications
• Designers can style while devs create logic
• Works from day one, immediate feedbacks
• Open source and community-based
More on https://xwiki.org

28. Q&A
Me

29. Vincent Massol
vincent@xwiki.com
http://about.me/vmassol
https://xwiki.org
https://xwiki.com