Alex Little

I’ve been looking again at getting the minimal deployment of the IMS Enterprise SDK running and looking at the experiences that Carol has been having (see: the MINTED blog and the posting on the SF forum). I did have some problems getting it running and I’m sure it was a classpath issue (it your interested in the exact problem I posted it up to the SF forum). However, I had also asked Carol to email me the whole war file that she had compiled and got running. Once I put her version of the war file in my tomcat deployment directory it ran fine.

I’m now looking at extending this war to make it do something useful, and Scott has provided me with some sample code of how to do this, so I’ll have a look through this this and will post up here how I’m getting along.

We’ve also arranged to spend a morning face-to-face with Scott so that we can go over any problems we are having with him, as I’m sure many of the problems/issues that Carol and I have been having would be very easily solved f2f. I sure that this will be really valuable, and will save us a lot of time.

Been chatting to Carol at Sussex Uni about their Minted project today, really just to catch up to let them know what we’re up to in our project, and for her to let us know what she’s doing – to check we’re not duplicating effort. At the moment it seems like we can both just get on with what we were already doing, so we’ll still continue creating the Moodle Grouping Module in the same way and testing out the IMS Enterprise SDK etc, and they’ll be trying out the IMS Enrolment module for Moodle and linking the IMS Enterprise SDK up to their student record system.

It would be nice if we could have our Moodle Grouping Module ready in time for Minted to try out too, but this all depends on how quickly we can get this up and running. Fortunately though, we don’t need to depend on each other for our projects to be successful and still deliver what we promised to JISC!

We’re going to be keeping in touch with how each of our respective projects develops anyway, and once we’ve actually developed something worth showing (!), we’ll get together face-to-face.