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Posted to dev@shindig.apache.org by Manish Marathe <py...@gmail.com> on 2008/02/15 22:14:58 UTC
Help developing page like iGoogle
Hello All,
I want to develop the landing page of my application like the iGoogle page
with gadgets those can be dragged/dropped/added etc. I believe I can run my
own gadget server by nothing but building shindig and deploying the
gadgets.war on top of tomcat I use for my application.
I want to know the flow of how this works. From my understanding, I need:
1) A gadget server, which will parse the gadget spec file and run the
gadget.
2) A container to deploy the gadgets into.
Now the shindig code has a sample container with some gadgets. I am not sure
its along the lines of what it will be which will make the gadgets
draggable, droppable, addable, deletable etc.
Can someone throw some light on the concept as a whole and how to go about
doing this?
Thanks
Manish
Re: Help developing page like iGoogle
Posted by Zhen Wang <wa...@google.com>.
On Feb 19, 2008 11:29 AM, Manish Marathe <py...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2008 2:09 PM, Zhen Wang <wa...@google.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Manish Marathe <py...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > I want to develop the landing page of my application like the iGoogle
> > page
> > > with gadgets those can be dragged/dropped/added etc. I believe I can
> > run my
> > > own gadget server by nothing but building shindig and deploying the
> > > gadgets.war on top of tomcat I use for my application.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > >
> > > I want to know the flow of how this works. From my understanding, I
> > need:
> > >
> > > 1) A gadget server, which will parse the gadget spec file and run the
> > > gadget.
> > >
> > > 2) A container to deploy the gadgets into.
> >
> > You might also need a gadget directory from which users can easily pick
> > gadgets.
>
>
> True.
>
> > Now the shindig code has a sample container with some gadgets. I am not
> > sure
> > > its along the lines of what it will be which will make the gadgets
> > > draggable, droppable, addable, deletable etc.
> >
> > >
> >
> > An iGoogle-like container sample is under development.
>
>
>
> Thanks for the info Zhen. Yes even I thought its on-going. Any approximate
> time when it could possibly be available?
>
Hopefully by the end of this quarter.
Re: Help developing page like iGoogle
Posted by Manish Marathe <py...@gmail.com>.
On Feb 15, 2008 2:09 PM, Zhen Wang <wa...@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Manish Marathe <py...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I want to develop the landing page of my application like the iGoogle
> page
> > with gadgets those can be dragged/dropped/added etc. I believe I can
> run my
> > own gadget server by nothing but building shindig and deploying the
> > gadgets.war on top of tomcat I use for my application.
>
> Yes.
>
> >
> > I want to know the flow of how this works. From my understanding, I
> need:
> >
> > 1) A gadget server, which will parse the gadget spec file and run the
> > gadget.
> >
> > 2) A container to deploy the gadgets into.
>
> You might also need a gadget directory from which users can easily pick
> gadgets.
True.
> Now the shindig code has a sample container with some gadgets. I am not
> sure
> > its along the lines of what it will be which will make the gadgets
> > draggable, droppable, addable, deletable etc.
>
> >
>
> An iGoogle-like container sample is under development.
Thanks for the info Zhen. Yes even I thought its on-going. Any approximate
time when it could possibly be available?
Re: Help developing page like iGoogle
Posted by Zhen Wang <wa...@google.com>.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Manish Marathe <py...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I want to develop the landing page of my application like the iGoogle page
> with gadgets those can be dragged/dropped/added etc. I believe I can run my
> own gadget server by nothing but building shindig and deploying the
> gadgets.war on top of tomcat I use for my application.
Yes.
>
> I want to know the flow of how this works. From my understanding, I need:
>
> 1) A gadget server, which will parse the gadget spec file and run the
> gadget.
>
> 2) A container to deploy the gadgets into.
You might also need a gadget directory from which users can easily pick gadgets.
>
> Now the shindig code has a sample container with some gadgets. I am not sure
> its along the lines of what it will be which will make the gadgets
> draggable, droppable, addable, deletable etc.
An iGoogle-like container sample is under development.
>
> Can someone throw some light on the concept as a whole and how to go about
> doing this?
>
> Thanks
> Manish
>