Hi, Ted and Luciano are both correct. Let me chip in a bit with advantages and disadvantages of both.
Live sandboxes Advantages - 1. You will see your application in action Disadvantage - 1. Environment setup - Setting up same friend connection on container is time consuming. 2. Difficult or Impossible to revert back state. Making it hard to write test bed Shindig Advantages - 1. You can state complete friends connection with profile and existing activities in a XML file. This XML file becomes a part of your test bed 2. In House tesing, no dependency on external sandboxes Disadvantages - 1. Shindig can not 100% simulate live sandboxes. In past I faced issues with persistence apis, when I tried to store state in one user (VIEWER) datastore and switch to another user as VIEWER, the data store got reset. I am not sure if the same problem persists. This is indeed an interesting topics, folks please feel free to correct me, add more tips on how you all create test beds. I hope to see more inputs from all of you.. Thanks, Rohit On Jun 3, 5:08 pm, "Luciano Ricardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep! > > And you can create your own Social Network for tests using Shindig... > > http://incubator.apache.org/shindig/ > > :) > > > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Ted Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Find a social network service that is a OpenSocial container and then > > work on it. For example: Orkut, Hi5, MySpace, Ning or Plaxo Pulse. > > > Seehttp://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/gettingstarted.htmlfor > > more information. > > > Hope this helps. > > > On Jun 3, 9:15 am, Ricardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for your answer! > > > I have another question, how can I set the enviroment to develop and > > > test my applications using the OpenSocial? > > > > On 2 jun, 20:48, "Rohit Ghatol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Ricardo, > > > > Yes, a OpenSocial Application can run in all the Social Networks that > > have > > > > adopted the OpenSocial standards. > > > > However, here are few things which could be different such as > > > > 1. Look and feel for each container.Some one may choose to provide > > different > > > > look and feel for each container for the app to blend in > > > > 2. The policy of which field of a person are exposed are different > > across > > > > different containers. You should use the following api to ensure your > > > > application is generic - opensocial.Environment * > > > > getEnvironment< > >http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/0.6/reference/opensocial....> > > > > *() > > > > Else you would end up have pieces of code specific for one particular > > > > container. > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rohit > > > > > Google Developer Programs > > > > > Join us at Google's biggest developer event of the year > > > > May 28-29, San Franciscohttp://code.google.com/events/io > > > > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Ricardo < > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > I would like to know if an application made with the OpenSocial api > > > > > will run in all the SocialNetworks that adopted the OpenSocial > > > > > standard? > > > > > Thanks! > > -- > Luciano --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Application Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
