Hi Shindig-dev, As some of you know, I've been working on a MySQL backend data layer for Shindig. For these tutorials, I created a backend database in MySQL for Shindig, then I created my own custom services for activities, people, data along with a custom data handler.
For database code, I toyed with using something like Hibernate, but for now I chose just straight JDBC. Anyone can take what I implemented and swap it out for Hibernate or other OR code. Here's the HTML version of the tutorial: http://chrisschalk.com/shindig_docs/shindig_sql_tutorial/shindig_data_tutorials.html Also, if you want to jump past the HTML tutorial, you can just download the zip file which contains pretty verbose READMEs. http://chrisschalk.com/shindig_docs/shindig_sql_tutorial/shindig_sql.tar.gz And finally, since Shindig these days is a moving target, I saved off a complete Shindig code bundle from May 9th and saved it here: http://chrisschalk.com/shindig_docs/shindig_sql_tutorial/shindig-5-9-save.tar.gz You can apply this tutorial to this version of Shindig and be assured that the tutorials will work. Feel free to have a look and let me know what you think. -Chris p.s. I'll probably tweak the database code a bit to better support OpenSocial, but for now, you can list friends, create activities, store persistent data. Also, be sure to checkout the "simplecontainer.html" file, as it contains some simple gadgets to test with. Have fun! -- Chris Schalk, Google Developer Advocate
