August 2011
Intermediate to advanced
546 pages
20h 53m
English
Content preview from Programming Social Applications
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Apache Shindig
Shindig is an open source Apache project that functions as an OpenSocial container. It allows developers to quickly and easily host OpenSocial gadgets by providing the code to render gadgets and proxy requests, and to handle REST and RPC requests.
Shindig’s architecture is split into four separate parts, as shown in Figure 3-1 and described in the list that follows it.
Figure 3-1. Shindig’s architectural layers
- Gadget container JavaScript
The handler for managing an OpenSocial gadget’s security, communication, and UI and JavaScript features
- Gadget rendering server
Renders the gadget XML document (the definition for a gadget) into HTML and JavaScript for the container JavaScript to expose
- OpenSocial container JavaScript
The JavaScript environment that sits on top of the gadget container JavaScript to provide OpenSocial API functionality
- OpenSocial data server
Provides a mapping implementation of the container to the server interface so developers can implement their own data syncs
Shindig has a couple of core goals:
To allow new sites to develop a mechanism for hosting gadgets with very minimal effort.
To become a language-neutral platform in which the container is provided in many different languages. Currently, only container versions in PHP and Java are available and supported.
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