Chapter 12. Tips from the Trenches

This advanced chapter explains concepts that you may need during first-time Sakai deployments. In it, there is an overview of the third-party frameworks that Sakai is built on and information about how to manage and monitor Java.

To inject realism, also included are three interviews with experts: The first interview is with Megan May of Indiana University who was until recently the Director of Quality Assurance working closely with a large number of testers. The second interview is with Seth Theriault, a long-standing and well known member of the community. He is a system integrator at Columbia University. The final interview is with David Howitz, who is a learning environment developer at the University of Cape Town.