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Hm … nur ein armer oo consultant … der das snipsnap.war nicht runter laden kann :-/

Hehe, der aber mittlerweile schon mehrere SnipSnaps erfolgreich aufgesetzt hat :D

You can reach my via mail as angelo dot schneider at visualsphere dot de

I'm chairman of VisualSphere Software Tools AG (http://www.visualsphere.com) currently working mainly on Ivy/Ant build files and configuration/dependency descriptions for Enterprise Repositories. Besides that I'm an OO consultant teaching OOA/OOD/UML and Java as well as component architectures and SCRUM. I have a "private" web site on http://www.oomentor.de. Finally I'm practicing and teaching an martial art called aikido and teach in the dojo: www.jiyukan.de.

You can find me here: http://www.xing.com/profile/Angelo_Schneider.

Another nice Wiki I'm experimenting with is a Wiki based one prevayler (former http://prevayler.org) here: http://wiki.com.br/ (Site currently down?)

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Proposed Improvements on Snip Snap.

Portlets

1. more portlets
2. several header horizontal portlets going from left to right
3. several footer portlets going from left to right
4. several portlets on the left side and several on the right side
5. context sensitive portlets that overwrite the "default" wiki wide portlets

Rename the portlets

Portlets should be called e.g. snipsnap-portlet-left-X, where X is just an arbitrary numeric value. The right side portlets are called snipsnap-portlet-right-X whereas the top would be snipsnap-portlet-header-X and the bottom snipsnap-portlet-footer-X.

Positioning the portlets

All portlets with the name snipsnap-portlet-left-X would be rendered top down on the left side according to the numbers, lowest first, highest last. All portlets with the name snipsnap-portlet-right-X, would be rendered on the rigth side accordingly. The snips with the names snipsnap-portlet-header-1 to snipsnap-portlet-header-5, would be rendered top down just above the standard wiki line with "Start | Index | log on … ". The snips with the names snipsnap-portlet-header-6 and higher would be rendered just below that line of links.

In the same way the snips with names snipsnap-portlet-footer-X would be rendered top to down starting with 1 below the page.

Overwriting the wiki portlets

The wiki owner defines the left and right portlet. But the creator of a snip should be able to overwrite any portlet (probably restricted by configurations). So if an author creates a snip called "myTopic" he could create child snips called "myTopic/snipsnap-portlet-left-1" etc. to get the wiki wide portlets replaced by his own portlets. Just like in an OO language where derived classes redefine override base classes behaviour.

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