Its shameful to admit, but this is my cherry blog. It happened almost by accident, but now its done. Ahh, the fredom to rant and rage to the world or not....
The geek in my is enjoying figuring out the ins and out of creating plugins for Confluence (second cherry of the day), not bad, not bad. It all looks reminiscent of Apache Struts and forwards to JSP , albeit with Velocity templates taking over from JSP, not surprising considering its a webapp.
Why do this? well, all I want to do is not spam a thousand people when I have to patch a server, playing nice I would like to issue targeted mail. How to do that? Given Confluence, its not straight forward but can be done, probably. I'm looking at modding the existing UserList plugin to spit out a CSV list of users, which can then be embedded in the Mail NG plugin. Giving me a nice form to hit the exact userbase, perfect. All I have to do is figure out how to deploy it.
Confluence plugins look pretty powerful, I have some ideas about graphing org charts, perhaps with Graphviz, but that doesn't look flashy enough. I just wondered about SVG and would you believe it, there's a plugin for SVG also, fab. Its just a shame Microsoft can't support open standards, SVG plugins for IE are very hard to come by, I eventually used the discontinued COREL plugin due to its support for interactive functionality. Just as well there's Firefox.
About Me
- javahollic
- I've been developing with Java for 10years plus, exploring like a back-packer, finding new APIs and technologies. When not obsessed with Jira and Confluence projects or Eclipse plugins I fulfil the role of IT support to my children who find innovative ways to break their PC's. In between I manage to take the dog for a walk, so there's the balance, see it, left a bit? yes, just there.
3 comments:
You might want to check out the Chart Plugin [1] for Confluence.
Also if you are writing a plugin to send emails to users, you should avoid utilizing two other plugins to do the work. Instead use the internal API of Confluence to get the users via the UserAccessor. That will save you the trouble of integrating the plugins.
Cheers,
Jens
[1] http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Chart+Plugin
SVG plugin from Corel? That's dated
Get more up-to-date on the current state of SVG on http://svg.startpagina.nl
re: chart plugin, yah. Internal Confluance API, yah also, getting there. slowly slowly writey confluence plugin.
re: SVG Corel plugin. the need for that was driven by interactive features that only Corel implemented, the Adobe plugin was crap. Firefox works a treat, go open source...
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