Application Manager

Design: Application Manager

We need to create an application manager to manage XWiki applications.

Specifications

Package format and its associated Maven "packaging" plugin

• Wiki pages
• Descriptor:
  • Application version
  • Application name
  • Application license
  • Dependencies
  • ...
• Bundled plugins/components
• Web files (javascript, css...) and extensions points

Repository

• Get package from http repository and resolve dependencies
• Get package from ftp repository and resolve dependencies
• Get package from filesystem
• Get package by uploading/attaching it with web interface

Install/Upgrade/Uninstall

• Install application from package with dependencies check
• Install application from other wiki with dependencies resolution
• Upgrade/migrate existing application from package
• Uninstall application

Translations

• Automatically register application translation on XWikiPreference or refactor current platform translation system

Ideas

• Note that I think Plexus has some code to transparently download jars from a remote maven repository and make them available in the classloader. We'd need to ask Jason.

Pointers

• http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-547

Implementations

• Proposed detailed implementations
• Existing partial or complete implementations