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Deep dive into XWiki past the landscape scan: component/DI architecture, document + class/object data model, oldcore, Hibernate storage + xwikircs history, ObservationManager events, rendering pipeline, multi-wiki; the full extension-interface surface (components, Java/wiki macros, script services, UIX/UIXP, JAX-RS REST, event listeners, resource handlers); and the extensions.xwiki.org ecosystem (XAR/JAR/WebJar, 900+ extensions). Catalog: - UC-38 make a wiki engine federation-capable via its native extension API (composable integration — first engine-side-direction UC; XWiki is proof) - UC-39 attach a wiki-as-application-platform shard (bodiless typed pages) - enrich UC-31 (ObservationManager event-driven sync), UC-34 (XObject model), UC-36 (xwikircs internal history) with concrete XWiki specifics Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
260613 — XWiki deep dive (implementation, extension interfaces, ecosystem)
Date: 2026-06-13
What this is
A focused study of XWiki — the canonical "wiki-as-application-platform"
engine flagged in research/260608-wikiengines-overview/. Goes past the landscape
scan into XWiki's implementation (component/DI architecture, document data
model, storage, rendering, events), the interfaces it exposes to extend the core
engine (components, macros, UI extension points, script services, REST), and the
extension ecosystem (extensions.xwiki.org repository, XAR/JAR/WebJar types,
notable extensions).
Read through one lens: what does XWiki teach shard-wiki about (a) adapting a structured app-platform engine as a shard, and (b) how a host engine can become federation-capable through its own extension mechanism (INTENT composable integration).
Complements:
research/260608-wikiengines-overview/— the landscape scan that surfaced XWikiresearch/260608-federation-concepts/— already covered XWiki's ActivityPub extension
Contents
| Path | Role |
|---|---|
findings.md |
Architecture, extension-interface catalog, ecosystem, capability profile, INTENT mapping, UC seeds, sources |
Status
Initial deep dive complete. Two new use cases promoted to
spec/UseCaseCatalog.md (UC-38, UC-39); existing UC-34/UC-36/UC-31 enriched with
XWiki specifics. Adapter-contract implications feed
workplans/SHARD-WP-0002-federation-architecture.md.