Another important project joins the crowd of supporters for OpenSocial!
Shindig - an Apache incubator project for OpenSocial and gadgets
What is Shindig?
Shindig is a new project in the Apache Software Foundation incubator and is an open source implementation of the OpenSocial specification and gadgets specification.
The architectural components of Shindig can be broken down as follows:
- Gadget Container JavaScript -- core JavaScript foundation for general gadget functionality. This JavaScript manages security, communication, UI layout, and feature extensions, such as the OpenSocial API.
- Gadget Server -- an open source version of Google's gmodules.com, which is used to render the gadget XML into JavaScript and HTML for the container to expose via the container JavaScript.
- OpenSocial Container JavaScript -- JavaScript environment that sits on top of the Gadget Container JavaScript and provides OpenSocial specific functionality (profiles, friends, activities, datastore).
- OpenSocial Gateway Server (does not yet exist in the repository) -- an implementation of the server interface to container-specific information, including the OpenSocial REST APIs, with clear extension points so others can connect it to their own backends.
Project home page- http://incubator.apache.org/shindig/
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Keywords: Apache, Gadgets, Google, OpenSocial, OpenSocial Container, Shindig, Social Networks, Web 2.0, Widgets, Apache Software Foundation
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