1. I am looking into the opitons of not syndicating the list of gadgets/metadata in my social networking site, i haven't yet found a central repository/directory from which i could get a comprehensive list of gadget definition xmls. As a hack i was thinking about fetching the igoogles gadget directory page and query using xpath to fethc the gadget xmls form there and provide them to be added by the users of my social networking site. But i feel this is not the right approach(should i really setup the mechanism to syndicate the gadgets supported by my site- including DB/Java/ClientSide?).
2. Given that i have a list of gadget xmls(i dont have the gadget metadata - title , height, width...), can i use the metadata apis to fetch these information from the gadget xml and use it to render the gadgets dynamically. Can anyone throw some light on where to look and what to look? I have gone through http://markmail.org/thread/h7gnofdyf4g4o56i, http://markmail.org/thread/l3jsjf5r2ycyaevp and several others. I assume that i have to make use of org.apache.shindig.gadgets.servlet.RpcServlet to access the gadget metadata. I was thinking more of a xhr approach, but it seems that's not the best approach, what is the proposed way of usage? Thanks and Regards, Hafiz -- He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
