[Xerte] Xerte3 timeline

[Julian Tenney]

To start with, there would likely be new Xerte 3 templates that use data created in toolkits: so toolkits doesn't really need to change: the wizard works well enough to create xml.

Then new technologies - like a Xerte 3 file - can consume that data. So we need to find a nice way of allowing toolkits to support different runtimes. That would mean a template could identify the runtime it wants to use: a Flex SWF for example, or a web page hosting one, and then fire the xml from the wizard at that page for use by the code. Does that make sense?

One thing that would be an obvious candidate would be a 3D object viewer that could take 3D models from Sketchup, for example, and display them, and present an interface for the user to interact with the model. That cannot be done in Xerte 2.0. It can be done in Xerte 3.0. From a toolkits user's point of view, nothing really changes.

The great thing about toolkits (well, one of the great things....) is this separation of data and logic. Right now you can use toolkits to allow folk to edit .xml in a structure you control with the wizard, and then do whatever you like with that data.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: 10 December 2010 09:50
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3 timeline

Will Xerte online toolkits be updated to use Xerte 3 or is that not possible with Flex limitations?

Adam

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Adam Read
eLearning Technologist
University College Plymouth St Mark & St John

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 10 December 2010 09:03
To: knowledgeware at kccsoft.com; Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3 timeline

It's mostly dependent on the release of the Flex 4.5 SDK from Adobe, which doesn't have a date, but is scheduled for 'early 2011'. I need them to finish that before I can add in all the new support for mobile applications. That aside, it's ready to start playing round with in earnest now: use the MAX preview SDK from the flex downloads page.

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+Hero

At the moment the swfs you build will be quite a lot bigger than they will be when built under the final release, because the SDK currently has a load of debugging code in there.

J

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of KnowledgeWare
Sent: 09 December 2010 18:06
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Xerte3 timeline

Now that we're almost to 2011 just wondering if anyone knows if xerte3 is close to being out of beta and officially 'released'? Can anyone speculate on a timeline for this?

Thanks
RonM2


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