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Jul 10 2008

I want it all: kinds of webservices in moodle.

Published by ludo under API, English, Interoperability, Moodle

The interoperability for Moodle is a matter of strategic importance. OKTech is doing great things, and in the campus project we did some good job too. But the  goo thing of the proposed architecture that David and Ferran came up with is that allows the posibility of writting connectors implementing many diferent protocols and semantics. […]

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May 14 2008

El significado de la Interoperabilidad

Para quizás entender mejor cual es el objetivo de este blog y en definitiva, cual es el sentido de la creación de esta capa de Interoperabilidad para Moodle, deberíamos entender que representa para nosotros la interoperabilidad dentro de Moodle. No sólo por la vertiente de innovación para […]

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May 07 2008

Problemas con nuSOAP y PHP5

NuSOAP es un proyecto Open Source que permite conexiones SOAP mediante PHP de forma fácil. Desde las últimas versiones, Moodle incorpora ésta librería para la Moodle Network y es una parte imprescindible de los Webservices.
Durante el proceso programación de los conectores nos hemos encontrado con que el NuSOAP que viene dentro de Moodle no funciona […]

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Apr 22 2008

Requerimientos y limitaciones en las funciones de la API

Cuando se empieza una API de estas características es muy importante definir bien las líneas generales antes de empezar. En nuestro caso pretendemos crear una capa que nos permita acceder a Moodle de forma centralizada. Normalmente, ésto se realizaría usando directamente la funciones de Moodle, sin embargo existen algunos requerimientos adicionales para las funciones que […]

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Apr 14 2008

A proposal of interoperability architecture for Moodle

Published by ludo under API, English, Interoperability

Designing a Webservices Architecture for Moodle: Moodle-DFWs.

The purpose of this entry is to analyze the interoperability needs of Moode, and to make a proposal of architecture (that is already partially implemented). We call this Moodle-DFWs, because it needs a name. All this work is being done in the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya by the group […]

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Apr 12 2008

Why Webservices in Moodle?

Published by ludo under English, General, Interoperability, Moodle

The number of organizations that use Moodle as their LMS (Learning Management System) is greater every day. From k-12 schools to universities and companies the adoption of Moodle as e-learning platform is growing at a crazy pace. This is great both for the Moodle software and for the community. But as more users and institutions […]

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