Describing XWiki experience: how it was built and adapted. Discussing the benefits this technology could have for Enterprise Collaboration.

2. WebRTC and XWiki
Ludovic Dubost, XWiki SAS
WebRTC Conference, Paris, Dec 12th, 2013
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3. Agenda
·∙ About me and XWiki
·∙ Why WebRTC with XWiki
·∙ Technical Implementation
·∙ What we learned
·∙ Future
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4. About me and XWiki
·∙ Creator of XWiki and founder of XWiki SAS
·∙ XWiki, the best way to organize information
·∙ Founded in 2004, 10 years ago
·∙ Self funded and independent
·∙ 35 people, France and Romania
·∙ 100% Open-­Source
·∙ > 1 million downloads
·∙ 8 times participant to the Google Summer of Code
·∙ XWiki SAS provides services on top of XWiki
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5. XWiki Usages
·∙ Wiki and Knowledge Bases
·∙ Information Organization
·∙ Collaboration and Communication
·∙ Competitive Intelligence
·∙ Public Web Sites
·∙ Education
·∙ Custom Web development
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6. Why WebRTC with XWiki
·∙ 100% Web technology
·∙ Natural extension of collaboration
·∙ Content / Chat / Conference
·∙ Web Support (screen sharing)
·∙ We love standards
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7. Technical Implementation
·∙ WebRTC needs:
·∙ Compatible browser
·∙ A signaling system
·∙ XWiki constraints
·∙ Java based
·∙ Multi-­page Web Application
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8. Integration with XMPP
·∙ We embedded an XMPP Server in XWiki (vysper)
·∙ We added XMPP web chat technology (candy)
·∙ We added Video Call links in the chat application
·∙ WebRTC signaling build on top of XMPP
·∙ Installed our own turn server
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9. Starting a Call
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10. A few seconds later
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11. Real Demo
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12. Difficulties
·∙ No signaling technology, but you still need a stun/turn server
·∙ We tried hollaclient -­> nodejs dependency
·∙ We tried to use candy-­jingle -­> too complicated
·∙ Difficulties with ordering of signaling messages
·∙ Error handling not strong enough
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13. What we liked
·∙ Web standard
·∙ Very flexible UI
·∙ you can put the video anywhere in the page
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14. Future
·∙ Many other possible usages:
·∙ Click to call
·∙ Online Support
·∙ Recording audio/video or screen
·∙ Call outside of the chat application
·∙ Multi-­user calls
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15. Open Source
Everything is open-­source, published in our chat extension
https://github.com/xwiki-­contrib/xwiki-­platform-­chat/
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16. Contact
Ludovic Dubost
ludovic@xwiki.com
skype: ldubost
http://twitter.com/ldubost
http://xwiki.com
http://xwiki.org
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