>-----Original Message----- >From: Ryan J Baxter [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 8:44 AM >To: [email protected] >Cc: [email protected] >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 <[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
