On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Umashanthi Pavalanathan > <umashant...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Devs, > > > > As you know I am working on adding social features to PhotArk in the rest > > branch. > > To proceed further with the implementation, I have to add the social > > features in the UI. When working on this, I came across the requirement > of > > exposing the back-end functionalities as REST services. As you know, > > implementation in the trunk uses Apache Tuscany to integrate and expose > the > > functionality as JSON-RPC. Similarly in the rest branch we have the > > requirement of exposing the back-end functionality as REST services. For > > this purpose, I looked into three options: > > (1) Apache Shindig [0] > > (2) Apache Tuscany [1] > > (3) Apache Wookie [2] > > > > As we have discussed earlier in the mailing list [3], Apache Shindig > > provides a reference implementation for the OpenSocial specification and > > provide JSON-RPC & REST APIs. But these APIs are only limited to the > > concepts/services in the OpenSocial specification and currently there > seems > > to be no plans for extending further. So, using Apache Shindig, we can > > integrate the back-end social features as REST services; but it is only > > limited to this purpose. Since in the context of PhotArk, there are > several > > other functionalities/concepts like Albums, etc, using Shindig will not > > cater for all the requirements. > > > > On the other hand, Apache Tuscany, can be used to expose the > functionalities > > as REST services without any limitations and it's usage in the PhotArk > trunk > > assures that it can satisfy all the requirements in PhotArk. > > > > Apaceh Wookie also provides REST API. But it is particularly designed to > > facilitate building widgets. Similar to Shindig, Wookie also has limited > > support for converting all the functionalities in PhotArk into REST > > services. Even though Wookie has the support for UI widgets, I do not see > > any plans to make PhotArk as a widget based application in the near > future. > > So the REST integration facility provided by Wookie is limited in the > > context of PhotArk. > > > > After analyzing these three options, Apache Tuscany seems to be promising > > for me, to support all the requirements of PhotArk, related to exposing > REST > > services. > > > > I kindly invite you all to proceed further with this discussion. Your > > valuable input to this discussion is highly appreciated. > > > > Looking forward to hear from you all. > > > > > > [0] http://shindig.apache.org/ > > [1] http://tuscany.apache.org/ > > [2] http://incubator.apache.org/wookie/ > > [3] > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/photark-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg01141.html > > > > Thanks, > > ~Umashanthi > > > > I had the impression that the integration with Apache Shindig would > provide us much more benefits, but after some investigation I don't > believe that is true anymore. A REST interface based on Tuscany should > give us enough to build a solid social ui. Having said that, we might > look at the URI defined by Shindig/OpenSocial to see if we can follow > the same standard which would be beneficial for any future > integration. > +1. Since Tuscany has the flexibility in defining the URI (please correct me if I am wrong), I think we can incorporate the OpenSocial URI standards for our services. Thanks, ~Umashanthi > > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ >
