{"id":4726,"date":"2015-06-13T17:25:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T21:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/?p=4726"},"modified":"2015-06-14T00:52:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T04:52:57","slug":"annoucing-the-tsugi-java-library-for-building-interoperable-learning-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2015\/06\/annoucing-the-tsugi-java-library-for-building-interoperable-learning-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Annoucing the Tsugi Java Library for Building Interoperable Learning Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been focused on laying the technical groundwork for interoperable learning applications for the past ten years. Through my work on Sakai and IMS I have tried to help move the entire industry forward to enable innovative teaching and learning applications.   While we have made great progress, there is much to do.  My recent &#8220;State of Sakai&#8221; talk at the Apereo Conference alludes to the kind of work we still need to do.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BxGC5yAed5Y?list=PLu_8PCta0pHeAe8FMkIHBPlemiZCDkNua\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I have been exploring the space where applications are both portable and interoperable through my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsugi.org\/\" traget=\"_blank\">Tsugi<\/a>.  Over the past year I have spent more time on Tsugi than I have on Sakai because I think that exploring future architecture is a very high priority task.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I gave a workshop at the Apereo 2015 conference on <a href=\"http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/2015\/apereo\/sdmmgb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Building Applications using IMS Learning Tools Interoperability<\/a> using my PHP Tsugi.  While the workshop went very well, it was clear that the folks that needed to build interoperable applications *right now* were not interested in programming in PHP.  Also, I am well into my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2015\/04\/summer-of-sakaiumsi-designersdevelopers-wanted\/\">Summer of Sakai 2015<\/a> effort working with a number of students over the summer and it is clear that it is simply too difficult to teach new developers how to write Sakai applications.<\/p>\n<p>All of this was a &#8220;perfect storm&#8221; that motivated me to drop everything and put in an all-out effort to port my Tsugi library to Java in the past week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcing Tsugi Java 0.0.1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has been a pretty crazy week &#8211; I coded day and night and pretty much ignored my inbox &#8211; but I am pretty pleased with the results.  While Java Tsugi still needs some work &#8211; it is already quite competent to build LTI 1.0 applications in Java &#8211; and they feel very clean and elegant.  Here are some documents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/csev.github.io\/tsugi-java\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Tsugi Java web site<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/csev\/tsugi-java-servlet\/blob\/master\/src\/main\/java\/org\/tsugi\/sample\/TsugiServlet.java\" target=\"_blank\">A sample servlet that uses the Tsugi Java library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/csev.github.io\/tsugi-java\/apidocs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">JavaDoc for the Tsugi Java library<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This will continue to move and evolve but it is in good enough shape to share with others to start getting broader input.<\/p>\n<p>I also recorded a short introductory video about Tsugi Java:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R2hsu0xusKo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Conclusion<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is a great start and there is much still to do for Java Tsugi.   I am hoping that others will help move this effort forwards and contribute to the project.  For the next few weeks, I now need to sprint on finishing up a bunch of things for the Sakai 11 code freeze.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions or comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been focused on laying the technical groundwork for interoperable learning applications for the past ten years. Through my work on Sakai and IMS I have tried to help move the entire industry forward to enable innovative teaching and learning applications. While we have made great progress, there is much to do. 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