YAP Overview - Startups

Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) Jonathan LeBlanc – Technology Evangelist Yahoo! Developer Network – Partner Integrations Twitter: @jcleblanc

YAP Applications What’s a YAP Application?

Runs on YAP
Supports 2- & 3- legged OAuth
Supports OpenSocial 0.8 JavaScript APIs
Open Applications

Open Application - Views Small View Large View

Runs off platform
Supports 2- & 3-legged OAuth
Does not contain views
Requires users to authenticate session
OAuth Applications

Y!OS Components How does it work?

Y!OS Components – Open Authentication (OAuth)
2-legged & 3-legged OAuth
Consumer / Shared Secret keys
Similar to proprietary BBAuth, but open standard
http://developer.yahoo.com/oauth/

Allows secured access to private data
Whitelisted components
Will begin integrating into OSML
http://developer.yahoo.com/yap/yml
Y!OS Components – Yahoo Markup Language (YML)

Social Directory (read)
Contacts (read)
User Status (read / write)
Updates (read / write)
http://developer.yahoo.com/social
Y!OS Components – Social APIs

HTML / CSS / JavaScript securer
Enforces standards
Includes JSLint (http://www.jslint.com)
One of the first to integrate Caja
http://code.google.com/p/google-caja
http://developer.yahoo.com/yap/guide/caja-support.html
Y!OS Components – Caja

Caja - IFrame Security Concerns
IFrame Concerns
Drive-by downloads
No real content restrictions
Other known exploits
Caja Implementation
Blacklist all / Whitelist some model
Secure OpenSocial container

PHP SDK Currently Available Open and OAuth Applications ActionScript 3 SDK Currently Available Open Applications Y!OS Components – SDKs

SQL-like syntax
Private / Public Data
Use of many YDN APIs
Captures external data feeds
Allows custom tables with the “Open Data Tables” feature
http://developer.yahoo.com/yql
Y!OS Components – Yahoo! Query Language (YQL)

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YAP Overview - Startups

by Jonathan LeBlanc on Jun 11, 2009

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