Summary

Sakai is a Java-based open source Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) that is flexible, easy to use, and highly scalable. It has an active community of educational and commercial institutions working together to solve common problems and share best practice.

The Sakai Foundation supports the community and helps form a coherent project management structure around the product life cycle.

The Sakai CLE is not only an application but also a framework for easing the burden of tool creation and service integration. Sakai continues to evolve and attracts an increasing number of developers who are busy enhancing frameworks and tools.

The next chapter explains how to install a demo version of the Sakai CLE. One way of understanding the content of this book is to have the demo running while reading the chapters on specific toolsets.