OpenSocial Server Implementation

Question

What is the preferred method for implementing the OpenSocial platform? I know Apache Shindig, but cannot find any useful information on it. Also, is it possible to use an existing solution like lovdbyless and add OpenSocial functions to it?

Answer 1

It seems that there is a plugin that someone started, Ruby on Rails, OpenSocial Container plugin 0.1.0 , in the comments there is someone from Apache Shindig proposing to include it as an implementation of the Ruby server.

I also found an article on how to copy your own, Google OpenSocial with Ruby on Rails .

I have not tried it yet.

Answer 2

I ported shindig to .NET at http://code.google.com/p/pesta/ and a sample site using it from partuza at http://www.codeplex.com/raya

Answer 3

Even some of the Shindig team guys admit that the documentation is very sparse as they say that the source code is documentation. And believe me, there is some source code that you need to look at.

The most useful links I've found are as follows:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-shindig-dev/200805.mbox/raw/% [e-mail] % 3E /

http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SHINDIG/The+rough+guide+to+deploying+shindig

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-shindig-dev/200905.mbox/% [e-mail] % 3e

and an example of replacing default classes for interacting with a database:

http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SHINDIG/Providing+your+own+data+service+implementation