Nice writeup. I'll toss out some comments on things that stood out to me. "In my opinion (although I'm not sure that everyone on the Shindig list > agrees with me), there should not be a requirement that your container and > the Shindig server are in the same language, or share code, share > datasources, share anything but a handful of shared secrets. The only thing > that you need in your own programming language is the GadgetSigner (soon to > be renamed GadgetTokenSigner) and appropriate subclasses. This is not more > than a couple of lines of code in most cases. (I think they can even be > compiled to standalone Java programs, which are then run from the > commandline, so they can be called from any environment)." >
Personally, I'd strongly encourage this behavior. This will be even easier to do when we have a JsonRpc service for grabbing meta data, because you could then use the java shindig regardless of what language your server code uses (i.e. anybody could use it). It would be slightly faster to just use the native language directly, but when you factor in things like Caja and other libraries, it seems to make more and more sense to just use the java server for shindig, and talk to it via the RPC mechanism. "No. Not unless you accept some serious security and other issues. I > wouldn't even call it ready for your own OpenSocial public beta-test. That > being said, Shindig is being developed at an incredible pace, and I wouldn't > be surprised if it *is* production ready by the time you read this." You might want to add any special things you did yourself to get it production ready here -- the fact that there's no "opensocial-0.6" or " opensocial-0.7" in the features/ directory seems like an obvious place where other people might be scratching their heads! The only major security issues that are outsanding right now are locked domain support and the need to implement GadgetSigner. I see them at the bottom of the page -- perhaps just link to them from here? I didn't quite read every detail (busy right now), but I think this is something that will be tremendously helpful to other people. Great job! ~Kevin On Jan 31, 2008 5:50 PM, Reinoud Elhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided to write down some of my experiences and steps with Shindig, it > might be useful for others wanting to play a bit. > > From the more experienced Shinduggers, I would appreciate feedback on any > mistakes in the document (not that I want to make it my dayjob keeping > the document correct and up to date :) ) > > http://trac.hyves-api.nl/hyves-api/wiki/ShindigStarted >
