[Mediawiki-l] integrating MediaWiki with Java applets/servlets

Platonides Platonides at gmail.com
Mon Apr 26 21:07:16 UTC 2010


Boris Epstein wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> How well does MediaWIki work with Java? If I want to use Java code to
> parse files, access the database, provide or process content for my
> Wiki - how easy or hard is it to make that happen?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Boris.

MediaWiki is written in PHP. It expects its extensions to be php. Thus,
not too well :)

You could directly access the db from java, or serve some resources from
java, or even use them at an extension proxying with a little of php.
But using PHP would be much easier.





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