first public release 22. june 2003
It's a Wiki. A network-orientated knowledge-sharing tool. An anyone-can-edit-because-it-is-under-full-version-control hypertext system.
Similar to a discussion forum a Wiki is a platform that provides support for different-place and different-time collaboration. In its conceptual form a Wiki is just a collection of documents any user of the system can edit. The documents are named and linked together by a simple scheme: Any two or more words concatenated together is a link to a page of that certain name. So the text SimpleExample is a link to the page called "SimpleExample". The point of this simple scheme is that linking becomes a part of the way you write rather than something you do afterwards. This creates the very densely linked hypertext systems wikis are famous for.
To see a Wiki live - check out some of the classics: Ward Cunningham's c2.com - the grandfather of wikis and WikiPedia - a full-blown encyclopaedia.
Orange Wiki's distinctive features are:
It is implemented using J2EE-technology. It uses XML for its persistent storage, it has a Model-View-Controller architecture and it uses Apache Velocity for its template files.
Instructions for Windows 2000 and similar. Download and install Apache Tomcat. Download the Web Archive to your local machine and deploy it by uploading it to your local server. Use e.g.: orange as context path.
Tomcat Manager is by default located at this address: http://localhost:8080/manager/html but it may vary depending on your configuration.
After installation browse this address: http://localhost:8080/orange/servlet/wiki (address may be different due to your configuration) and fill out the selfexplanatory setup form. Default values are ok for testing.
When the web application is reset the application will have to be setup again unless your provide it with the location of the repository in the servlet configuration. Set an initialization parameter with name "repositoryFileName" to a suitable value.
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