Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: Estimates and Hope

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Dean,

> Will it be technically feasible to run both 1.0 and 1.1 at
> the same time?

Excellent question...

On top of my head, I believe you would have no problems running two versions of JBOSS (the application server that LAMS 1.0.x and 1.1 use) to run both instances of LAMS (in a same server). If you have this in two server, then that's trivial.

In principle, you can still run your old sequences in 1.0.x but all your new ones will be on 1.1. The single-sign-on bits should work for both instances of LAMS without a problem. However, there's a minor modification to the LAMS/Moodle module to send the students to the right instance of LAMS. But again, that modification is quite trivial.

Woow... It's good to think that we can accommodate for this even if we didn't design it to work like that.

> As a user (not a developer) I certainly appreciate all
> the great things the development community accomplishes.

Well, with 1.1 there's going to be a lot of testing involved and we would like to have power users like you to help us with the testing.

As much as we like developers , we also need people that have a clear understanding of useful use cases based on their experience, exposure to clients, etc. Having read some of your postings in the LAMS Community and the LD Book Study at moodle.org, I think you fit this profile perfectly So please don't hesitate to participate even if you are not a tech-head.

And your last question just perfectly exemplify this... as we -techos- never thought of having a Moodle server with two different instances of LAMS running.

So your comments are very much welcome and helpful!

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione