Nakamura Documentation

Sakai Nakamura is a next-generation "kernel" - a set of core services - for the Sakai 3 product. Its overarching aims are the following:

1. Flexibility for the User Experience : Nakamura aims to provide an underlying infrastructure of services which break down the siloed user experiences in sites and tools.
2. Developer Ease of Use : the primary users of Nakamura will be front-end developers, many of whom may be working only in HTML and Javascript. Nakamura releases will provide clear documentation with this sort of developer in mind, clean RESTful APIs, fast builds and short startup times enabling rapid cycles.
3. Scalability and Resilience : Nakamura will support full clustering and be built for scalability.
4. 3rd-party code : Nakamura will strive to reduce maintenance burdens and minimize the need for the Sakai development community to occupy itself with purer software engineering problems, and it will do so by judicious incorporation of other open source projects.
5. Test Coverage : Nakamura will labor to improve quality and stability through a discipline of test coverage.
   

   Which guide is right for me? Which guide is most suited to your needs will depend considerably on what kind of information you are looking for. Use the table below to help you.

   
   

   Guide	Content	Target Audience
   Your First Day With Sakai Nakamura	A hands-on tutorial introducing the content repository and scripting. Includes ~46 minutes of screencasts.	Client-side or server-side developers looking to become acquainted with the basics of Nakamura technology
   User Interface Developers Guide	Comprehensive manual for UI developers intending to develop user interfaces based on Sakai Nakamura	End Users of Nakamura, ie UI developers
   Adopter and Implementation Guide	Step by step installation guide	Administrators. Decision makers. Managers.
   Developers Guide	Getting started as a Sakai developer How can I get involved? Detailed documentation contributed by the developers	Developers contributing to the Sakai Nakamura Project. People interested seeing low level technical documentation.

   
   

Within each of these categories, there will be guides, faq's and detailed notes on each of the topics.