The demonstration version of Sakai allows administrators, teachers, students, and project workers to experiment with the core features of Sakai and many of the most popular tools.
It also allows evaluators to explore how Sakai can be used to create a rich learning environment. Administrators and implementers alike can easily gain an appreciation of the issues that may affect a production installation of Sakai.
The demonstration is a supportive sandbox in which to learn, because it has more tools enabled than are normally available in a production environment. The demonstration includes almost everything you need to run the program and does not require extensive effort to install. The demonstration is a self-contained environment that includes the application server Tomcat (http://tomcat.apache.org) and Hypersonic SQL (http://hsqldb.org/), an in-memory database that stores changes in text files. The only thing required to run the demo is a copy of...