No, didn't get any answers. I get the feeling that people got turned off after reading question 1, because so many people ask it.
However, I've not seen discussion of questions 2-4 either on the wiki or in the mailing list... Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Viggo Navarsete [mailto:viggo.navars...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 2:04 AM To: shindig-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Beyond the Examples Hi Jeff, did you get any answers to your post? I'm also interested in some of your questions, and guess they should make it into either a FAQ section or a "best practices" section of the Shindig documentation. Regards, Viggo On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Wang, Jeff (CTSI) <jeff.w...@ucsf.edu>wrote: > Hi All, > > > > I'm a relative newbie to Shindig, and I've worked through some of the > examples and created some sample gadgets. But I've got some questions > with regard to more useful deployments below. Feel free to tell me to > RTFM, or point me to a more appropriate mailing list. (There doesn't > seem to be a shindig-users list?) > > > > 1) Non-trivial datasources > > Dave Johnson and Chico Charlesworth have pretty decent run throughs with > Shindig and custom data sources. Basically, we need to override > PersonService, AppDataService, and ActivityService. and associate via > Guice. Message service is not necessary for OpenSocial compliance. > Have I missed anything? > > > > 2) Gadget deployment > > a) For a given gadget written locally, is it better to use the > <Shindig>/gadgets/files/... format, or expose the xml spec as an URL, > and refer to it in the <Shindig>/gadgets/ifr... format? > > > > b) For a given external gadget, say, the ToDo example. Is it better to > refer to the external URL, or to download it and save it locally to > avoid potentially unwanted version update? Would that be rude to the > gadget developer? > > > > c) I see examples of multiple gadgets on the same page, but what about > dynamic # of gadgets as with iGoogle or something like that? You'd > pretty much have to generate an array of specurls right? Does someone > have an example for that? > > > > 3) Authentication > > Shindig does a pretty good job of integrating OAuth into itself, but > what about non-OAuth based 3-legged authentication? Working in the > education world, it seems that Shibboleth is becoming the accepted > standard. What extensions do I need to write a Shibboleth adaptor? > > > > Other alternatives are to try to limit ourselves to un-authorized > gadgets, or to use third party cookies, which has problems in IE and > Safari. > > > > 4) Shindig Deployment > > > > So I have code written, Guice/Spring xmls modified, a new gadget, and > removed the samples. Is there a good way to create the War, or do I > have to package it myself? The maven target obviously take the entire > tree, and I'd like to add/subtract stuff from there. > > > > thanks for any help > > Jeff > >
