Ludovic Dubost presented on integrating WebRTC with XWiki at a conference in Paris, highlighting the importance of open-source collaboration tools. Key points included the technical implementation of WebRTC within XWiki and the integration of XMPP for chat and video capabilities. Future prospects for the technology include enhancing online support, multi-user calls, and other communication features.

2. WebRTC and XWiki
Ludovic Dubost, XWiki SAS
WebRTC Conference, Paris, Dec 12th, 2013
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3. Agenda
·∙ About me and XWiki
·∙ Why WebRTC with XWiki
·∙ Technical Implementation
·∙ What we learned
·∙ Future
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4. About me and XWiki
·∙ Creator of XWiki and founder of XWiki SAS
·∙ XWiki, the best way to organize information
·∙ Founded in 2004, 10 years ago
·∙ Self funded and independent
·∙ 35 people, France and Romania
·∙ 100% Open-­Source
·∙ > 1 million downloads
·∙ 8 times participant to the Google Summer of Code
·∙ XWiki SAS provides services on top of XWiki
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5. XWiki Usages
·∙ Wiki and Knowledge Bases
·∙ Information Organization
·∙ Collaboration and Communication
·∙ Competitive Intelligence
·∙ Public Web Sites
·∙ Education
·∙ Custom Web development
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6. Why WebRTC with XWiki
·∙ 100% Web technology
·∙ Natural extension of collaboration
·∙ Content / Chat / Conference
·∙ Web Support (screen sharing)
·∙ We love standards
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7. Technical Implementation
·∙ WebRTC needs:
·∙ Compatible browser
·∙ A signaling system
·∙ XWiki constraints
·∙ Java based
·∙ Multi-­page Web Application
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8. Integration with XMPP
·∙ We embedded an XMPP Server in XWiki (vysper)
·∙ We added XMPP web chat technology (candy)
·∙ We added Video Call links in the chat application
·∙ WebRTC signaling build on top of XMPP
·∙ Installed our own turn server
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9. Starting a Call
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10. A few seconds later
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11. Real Demo
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12. Difficulties
·∙ No signaling technology, but you still need a stun/turn server
·∙ We tried hollaclient -­> nodejs dependency
·∙ We tried to use candy-­jingle -­> too complicated
·∙ Difficulties with ordering of signaling messages
·∙ Error handling not strong enough
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13. What we liked
·∙ Web standard
·∙ Very flexible UI
·∙ you can put the video anywhere in the page
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14. Future
·∙ Many other possible usages:
·∙ Click to call
·∙ Online Support
·∙ Recording audio/video or screen
·∙ Call outside of the chat application
·∙ Multi-­user calls
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15. Open Source
Everything is open-­source, published in our chat extension
https://github.com/xwiki-­contrib/xwiki-­platform-­chat/
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16. Contact
Ludovic Dubost
ludovic@xwiki.com
skype: ldubost
http://twitter.com/ldubost
http://xwiki.com
http://xwiki.org
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