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MindTouch Deki 131
History
MindTouch originally developed Deki [7] as a fork of MediaWiki, replacing wikitext with XHTML, adding a
WYSIWYG editor, adding page and file search using Lucene, adding page hierarchies, and wrapping it all in a new
UI. [8]
For the "Hayes" release in July 2007, the backend was completely reimplemented in C#, resulting in an API built as
web services on top of the new Dream server and toolset. [8]
The most recent major release, "Lyons" (release in March 2009) [9] , and the associated commercial version
MindTouch 2009 [10] , introduces push notifications on content change [9] , key/value properties on page, user and file
objects [9] , and the "JEM" (Javascript Events & Messages) framework, which provides event coordination and
message passing. JEM integrates with the jQuery library and PageBus [11] , a JavaScript event and message bus, to
build rich internet applications. [12]
Architecture
Deki API
Deki differs from other wikis by decoupling the frontend and the business logic. The web frontend interacts with the
services via a REST API. This separation means that users can easily interact with the wiki in any language of their
choice, using a web services architecture. The Deki API is commonly deployed, and fully supported on Linux using
Mono, as well as Windows on the .NET framework. [8]
Each wiki page is automatically exposed as an XML Web Service, which can be operated on using standard HTTP
verbs.
Dream Technology
The Deki API is built on a service layer called Dream (Distributed REST Application Manager) [8] , a REST
framework for building web services on the .NET platform. [13] .
Web front-end
The most common interface to the Deki API is its PHP frontend. This frontend provides users with a full-featured
wiki, built using a WYSIWYG editor. [14]
Other front-ends
Other frontends to the Deki API available in the form of "connectors"; a Desktop Connector [15] allows publishing
from Microsoft Windows, while an Outlook Connector [16] allows publishing of documents from Microsoft Outlook.
A plugin for Microsoft Word is under development. [17]
An open-source iPhone interface named DekiMobile [18] was released in November 2008.