Getting Started
Developer Guides
How to get started developing tools and apps for Sakai- Development Environment Setup Walkthrough
- Sakai application (tool) structure
- Sakai app and tool naming tips
- Sakai Programming Best Practices
- Developing with the Sakai Framework
- Persistence
- Presentation Layer
- Comparing Sakai Display Technologies
- Sakai UI Widgets - List of user interface widgets in Sakai
- Using Java Server Pages (JSP)
- Using Java Server Faces (JSF)
- Using Reasonable Server Faces (RSF)
- Testing
- Internationalization (I18N)
- Adding Help to Your Tool
Developer Tools
Tools created to assist with developing in Sakai- Maven2 hibernate DDL generator POM — Maven 2 hibernate DDL generating POM and support files
- Generic DAO package — Package for developers to use persistent objects without writing DAOs
- Sakai App Builder — Eclipse plugin for Sakai Rapid Application Development
Sample Code
Sakai Programmer FAQ
Sakai Coding Tips
- Using lightweight object comparison
- Using commons lang for object comparison
- Using the commons logger
- sakai.properties configuration tips
- Getting the ApplicationContext in a spring bean
- Using the Sakai global sessionFactory
- Creating sessions from the Sakai SessionFactoryBase
- Javadocs for the Sakai API
- Sakai app and tool naming tips
Current tips assume you are using Sakai 2.2+
Sakai Framework Tips
Current tips assume you are using Sakai 2.2+
Sakai Provider Tips
All tips assume you are using Sakai 2.2+ unless otherwise noted
Eclipse Tips
- Implementing an interface
- Adding a try-catch block
- Filtering out external libraries in package explorer
- Add bin and target to global svn ignore in Eclipse
- Getting the Eclipse updater to work for minor releases
- Debugging Tomcat Remotely Using Eclipse
- Import Sakai source into Eclipse
- Install Subclipse
- Install SpringIDE
- Install Eclipse 3.2+
- Install Eclipse WTP
All tips assume you have at least Eclipse 3.1.2+
Tomcat Tips
Subversion Tips
Maven Tips
Labels
Developer Guides
Developer Tools
Development Environment Setup Walkthrough
Development Environment Setup Walkthrough (2.2.x-2.4.x)
Eclipse Tips
Maven Tips
Persistence
Presentation Layer
Sakai application (tool) structure
Sakai Coding Tips
Sakai development getting started
Sakai Framework Tips
Sakai Programmer FAQ
Sakai Provider Tips
Sample Code
Subversion Tips
Testing
Tomcat Tips