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Apache Shindig

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Development status
  
Retired (Apache Attic)

Type
  
Application framework

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

Apache Shindig

Developer(s)
  
Apache Software Foundation

Stable release
  
2.5.2 / October 26, 2014 (2014-10-26)

Written in
  
JavaScript, PHP and Java

Shindig is a framework for web-based applications. It is an open source project which began in December 2007 to provide a reference implementation for the OpenSocial standard. The software contains both server-side and client-side code. Once the project is mature, an installation of this product will be capable of rendering OpenSocial gadgets in a web browser.

Features

In the announcement for Shindig's first code commit, four primary features of Shindig were cited:

  • 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 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).
  • OpenSocial Gateway Server—an open source 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.It helps truly for open social sources

    • References

    Apache Shindig Wikipedia
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