Question regarding shindig-Java

[Simer Plaha <si...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I'm a java developer. I just wanted to know if I can build a social network
from scratch using Shindig ? Does shindig provides with the APIs to create
profile, activities, walls, notifications, profile images, adding friends
etc ? By looking at few videos on youtube and few tutorials I understood
that shindig is a common container to host social media app's developers by
developers everywhere but does this API allow me to create a social media
java website from scratch ?

Thanks
Simer

RE: Question regarding shindig-Java

["Franklin, Matthew B." <mf...@mitre.org>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ryan J Baxter [mailto:rjbaxter@us.ibm.com]
>Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 8:44 AM
>To: dev@shindig.apache.org
>Cc: shindig-dev@incubator.apache.org
>Subject: Re: Question regarding shindig-Java
>
>Simer, Shindig is a reference implementation of the OpenSocial spec [1].
>The spec includes various APIs to allow applications to work with people,
>activities, messages and other types of social data from a social network.
> However there are many pieces of functionality in Shindig that are not
>suitable for a production environments and required individual consumers
>to provide their own implementations for them.  In my experience most
>consumers of Shindig actually place it on top of an existing application
>to allow that application to support the OpenSocial specification.

We are working on an application that fully supports the OpenSocial spec via Shindig at Rave [1], though it isn't a complete solution yet.  

[1] : http://rave.apache.org

>
>-Ryan
>
>[1] http://docs.opensocial.org/display/OSD/Specs
>
>
>
>
>From:   Simer Plaha <si...@gmail.com>
>To:     shindig-dev@incubator.apache.org,
>Date:   04/27/2012 05:52 AM
>Subject:        Question regarding shindig-Java
>
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm a java developer. I just wanted to know if I can build a social
>network
>from scratch using Shindig ? Does shindig provides with the APIs to create
>profile, activities, walls, notifications, profile images, adding friends
>etc ? By looking at few videos on youtube and few tutorials I understood
>that shindig is a common container to host social media app's developers
>by
>developers everywhere but does this API allow me to create a social media
>java website from scratch ?
>
>Thanks
>Simer

Re: Question regarding shindig-Java

[Ryan J Baxter <rj...@us.ibm.com>]

Simer, Shindig is a reference implementation of the OpenSocial spec [1]. 
The spec includes various APIs to allow applications to work with people, 
activities, messages and other types of social data from a social network. 
 However there are many pieces of functionality in Shindig that are not 
suitable for a production environments and required individual consumers 
to provide their own implementations for them.  In my experience most 
consumers of Shindig actually place it on top of an existing application 
to allow that application to support the OpenSocial specification.

-Ryan

[1] http://docs.opensocial.org/display/OSD/Specs




From:   Simer Plaha <si...@gmail.com>
To:     shindig-dev@incubator.apache.org, 
Date:   04/27/2012 05:52 AM
Subject:        Question regarding shindig-Java



Hi,

I'm a java developer. I just wanted to know if I can build a social 
network
from scratch using Shindig ? Does shindig provides with the APIs to create
profile, activities, walls, notifications, profile images, adding friends
etc ? By looking at few videos on youtube and few tutorials I understood
that shindig is a common container to host social media app's developers 
by
developers everywhere but does this API allow me to create a social media
java website from scratch ?

Thanks
Simer