OpenSocial CyWorld Dev.Square presentation Sep 09

A Developer’s Overview Chris Schalk, Google Developer Advocate Sept 4, 2009

Agenda
Introduction
OpenSocial History, Background, Roadmap
OpenSocial Developer Basics
OpenSocial Development Tools
Advanced Developer Topics
OpenSocial.org

A Brief Introduction to OpenSocial

What is OpenSocial? “ OpenSocial defines a common set of APIs based on Open Standards for building social applications across multiple websites”

Why OpenSocial? Before OpenSocial…

What is OpenSocial? Standards Based

What is OpenSocial?

Who owns OpenSocial? ?

Who owns OpenSocial? ? OpenSocial is managed under the auspices of the “OpenSocial Foundation” - http://www.opensocial.org No!

Who's Using it? and many more...

Who's Using it?

OpenSocial Roadmap
Version 0.5 was released in a “developer release” on Nov 1st 2007.
First “sandbox” was made available on Orkut
Version 0.6 was released in December 2007
Initial version of Shindig server software was launched as Apache incubator project
Other sandboxes came live - Hi5, Ning, Plaxo …
Version 0.7 (production) was released in January 2008
MySpace, Hi5, Orkut began running 0.7

OpenSocial Roadmap
Version 0.8/0.8.1
Released in late 2008
Contains a RESTful & RPC protocol
OpenSocial Client Libraries launched in Dec 08

OpenSocial 0.9 (Current)
Key Goal:
Enable a faster development experience that is both secure and efficient
Core principles:
Client-side and server-side processing
Standard set of tags with extensibility model
Example: <os:ShowPerson>

Developing OpenSocial Applications

Demonstration
Building simple OpenSocial Client Applications

OpenSocial Developer Tools

OpenSocial Developer Tools
OSDA - ‘OpenSocial DevApp’
An OpenSocial app that provides the ability to build and execute OpenSocial apps within an OpenSocial container.
Gadget Editor
A new, ultra simple online gadget editor
OSDE - ‘OpenSocial Development Environment’
An Eclipse plugin that allows for OpenSocial application development completely offline

Demo - OSDA ‘OpenSocial DevApp’

Demo - Gadget Editor

Demo - OSDE

Performance - Designing Apps for speed and scale
Gadgets are Web apps too!
Use tools like Firebug, Yslow (Firefox), Web Inspector (Safari), HttpWatch (Internet Explorer)
Minify/compact JavaScript, CSS
Image “spriting” to reduce requests
Measure latency using JavaScript
OpenSocial development best practices
Use batch requests
Take advantage of new 0.9 features
…
http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions/DesigningOpenSocialAppsSpeedScale.html (Just google “OpenSocial Apps Speed Scale”)

OpenSocial Server-Side development

OpenSocial Server-Side Development
OpenSocial’s RESTful/RPC protocol has been available since version 0.8
Allows for server-to-server communication with OpenSocial container
OpenSocial REST/RPC Client Libraries simplify communication with OS container
Integrated with Open Standard, OAuth, for secure Web transactions

Introducing the OpenSocial Client Libraries http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-php-client http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-ruby-client http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-python-client http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-java-client A set of client libraries for that enable direct communication to an OpenSocial server.
Client libraries exist for PHP, Ruby, Python and Java
Supports both REST and RPC protocols
Documentation Wiki pages
Sample applications provided

Demos
Using OSDE to build Java RESTful client applications
New tutorials
Using 2-legged OAuth in a WebApp
Using 3-legged OAuth in a WebApp

OpenSocial.org

OpenSocial.org
http://opensocial.org

Great documentation resource

The OpenSocial specification process

Many developer resources

Useful OpenSocial Links
Homepage & specification: http://www. opensocial .org
OpenSocial Wiki! (Compliancy, Cross container development …)
http://wiki. opensocial .org
Get on the forums:
http://groups. google . com/group/opensocial
Help shape the specification:
http://groups. google . com/group/opensocial-and-gadgets-spec/
Check out OSDE:
http://code. google . com/p/opensocial-development-environment/
Check out OSDA:
http://osda.appspot.com

Questions Q&A
Chris Schalk
Twitter: @cschalk
[email_address]

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