Alex Little

Have now got simple search and forum applications set up the LD player can connect to using web services. There’s only a fairly basic set of functionality available at the moment for these, but I think thats probably all that’s needs as a proof of concept, it should be easy enough to see how this could be extended.

So far I;ve tested the search tool with the Knowledge Network search and a Google search, it’s quite straighforward to swap the tools over. I’ve only tried interacting with one forum application, that’s the one on the knowledge network, but I’m hoping to be able to get access to the web services (and a test user id) for the FirstClass conferencing system, used here at the OU

I now need to spend a bit of time doing some writing up – so I don;t leave it all till the last minute . Also Patrick mentioned that the authoring tool download doesn’t give the user the generated xml LD file, so I’ll need to check up on getting that fixed. I think this is because the javazoom upload bean library needs to be included – this is the code that handles the upload of the resource files.