This page is a repository of information concerning XWiki architecture, inner workings, and development practices. The main entry-points for XWiki documentation are:

• http://platform.xwiki.org
• http://enterprise.xwiki.org

Features

All the main features of the xwiki platform are listed in http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/ . This is a nice place to start exploring XWiki capabiities (Page Editing, Document Lifecycle, Versioning, Attachments, Rights Management, Spaces, RSS Feeds, Programming, Plugins, Applications, Skins, XML/RPC Remote API, Internalization, Portlet Integration, Database Support, Document Templates and Forms, Performance, Statistics).

Usage

An overview of user and administrator perspectives is advised to everyone willing to develop on the XWiki platform.

• User's Guide
• Admin's Guide

Architecture

The architecture http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Architecture shows the connections among the subsystems providing the many features of the XWiki platform. The XWiki domain model document http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/DataModel provides a brief description of what are XWiki Classes, Properties and Documents.

Developer's Documentation

Finally the entry-point for development specific documentation is the Developer's Guide. The most important documents are:

• Scripting Intro
• Api Guide
• Access the Objects in a Page 
• Velocity Hibernate Query Language Examples
• The FAQTutorial

not that basic but somehow useful:

• Internationalizing Applications

Developer's Resources

The Code Zone collects Snippets of XWiki Code (Velocity and Groovy), Macros, Plugins, Applications, Skins and Extensions.

Velocity Documentation

• Velocity Templating Engine Home
• User Guide
• Velocity Templating Language Reference