Repository Module

Distribute and expose extensions to the world

Description

The Extension Module supports various kind of repositories. One of them is based on its own REST protocol. This extension is an implementation of this protocol based on an XWiki instance.

See design page for future features and improvements

Generic features:

• Generic REST based protocol (does not depends in any way on XWiki or Java)
• Searchable

XWiki based server implementation:

• Index stored in XWiki pages
• Repository administration UI
• Integrated with wiki users
• Import extensions from any other repositories (for example with this feature you can import an extension located in a Maven repository into your XWiki Repository)

Overall Architecture

Prerequisites & Installation Instructions

See Repository Application.