Hi all, allow me to introduce myself and our new project. I'm a researcher at the MITRE Corporation (www.mitre.org), and my team is about to start up a new open source project to build an enterprise-class engine for PubSubHubbub. We looked for something that fit our needs and didn't see anything, so we're going to build one. Even thought we're going to be building something that we can deploy and use in our own IT environment, we thought that it was likely to be useful enough to others out there that we would build the whole core as an open source project that we're calling the PubSubHubbub Enterprise Engine -- or "PuSHEE".
The main part of this will be a hub built on top of Spring3.0, and a management console on top of that hub to control publishers, subscribers, users, and other admin functionality that you would expect from a deployable enterprise system. We'll also be building test harnesses, client and publisher libraries, OAuth2 authorization systems, and other support structures like that. In addition, we might be in a good position to propose and work with extensions to the PuSH protocol to handle things like publisher management or other issues that come up. I'm writing to this community to invite any interested parties in joining and following the project as we get it off the ground in the next couple weeks. We welcome feedback, guidance, advice, and (of course) working code contributions. You can see the empty shell of our project up on GoogleCode here: http://code.google.com/p/pushee/ It's just an empty spring shell right now, but I promise it'll get much more interesting shortly. I look forward to working with you all on this! -- Justin Richer Senior Computer Scientist The MITRE Corporation
