The document discusses the benefits of developing applications in a wiki environment, highlighting advantages such as collaborative development, quick turnaround times, and cost-effectiveness. It provides examples of applications built using the XWiki platform, like expense reports and employee evaluations. The presentation also introduces the concept of 'wiki as a platform' (WAAP) and includes a demonstration of building a todo application.

1. Developing Applications in XWiki
Vincent Massol
17 March 2010

2. Agenda
● Why develop Applications in a Wiki?
● Example of Wiki Applications
● WAAP = Wiki As A Platform
● Demo: Building a TODO Application

3. Why develop Applications in a Wiki?

4. Long Tail of Applications
Excel of
the web

5. Advantages of developing in a Wiki
● Fast
Cons
● Thanks to an existing Runtime
Not for all types of applications
●
● Collaborative Not an official specification
●
● Applications can be written between
several developers
● Quick turnaround time & Iterative
● First version can be done quickly and then iterate easily
● Cost effective
● No need for hard to find skills

6. Example of Wiki Applications

7. Holiday Requests

8. Meeting Manager

9. Forum

10. Task Manager

11. Blog

12. Small Apps are everywhere...
● Example 1: XWiki SAS intranet
● Expense Reports App
● Holiday Requests App
● CRM App
● Automatic contact form upload in CRM
● Automatic filing of scanned documents (XAMBOX)
● Recruitment App
● Employee's evaluations App
● Example 2: XWiki.org
● References
● Macros, Applications, Snippets, etc on code.xwiki.org
● FAQ
● … and a lot more

13. WAAP = Wiki As A Platform

14. Platform APIs

15. Extensibility

16. Demo: Building a TODO Application

17. XWiki SAS

18. XWiki SAS
● Since 2004
● 26 Employees
● 25K downloads/month
● Services
● Custom Development
● Support (User & Dev)
● Consulting
● Hosting
● Training (User, Dev, Admin)
●contact@xwiki.com

19. Q&A
vincent@xwiki.com Me