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 <[email protected]> To: [email protected], 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
