Your time frame for when you want to release will drive your choice of platform. If it's "immediate" you will need to either write for 0.8 containers or write an external app on top of the OpenSocial REST endpoints and make use of one of the SDKs out there. If your time frame is in the 4-6 month realm your assessment of OSML+ JS makeRequest + proxied content is a very good path.
We don't have an official release date at MySpace for 0.9, but I can tell you it will be very soon. The REST side of 0.9 will be announced live in the extreme near term. The container (OSML + JS container updates) are being finalized, but we don't have an official release date. If you want to start playing around you can sign up for a developer account on MySpace and use the sandbox OSML editor. http://developer.myspace.com/modules/apis/pages/OpenSocialSandboxEditor.aspx For reference documentation keep looking at opensocial.org. We also have a soon-to-be-released book on OpenSocial coming out. It goes into great depth on the Javascript API and also covers the REST API and a number of MySpace-specific quirks. There are also two chapters on OSML, so it should be a useful reference, no matter what path you take. http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780321619433 MySpace has been making a big push to wrap SDKs around all the OpenSocial REST endpoints in a variety of languages, as well as the "MySpaceID" implementation of OpenID. It can be a challenge to find the correct SDK, tho, since we're contributing to open source projects already out in the wild. This site links to most of the SDKs, though not all are current. http://wiki.developer.myspace.com/index.php?title=Site_Map Here are some other specific SDKs (OpenID SDK) http://wiki.developer.myspace.com/index.php?title=SDK (python OpenSocial SDK) http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-python-client/ -- clc On Sep 8, 4:38 pm, Arne Roomann-Kurrik <api.kur...@google.com> wrote: > On Sep 4, 10:20 am, Susan <susan.war...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks, Arne. This is very helpful. > > > I'm not going max-reach on my first app, just trying to find a solid > > approach that will serve me in future apps as well. It's helpful to > > learn that the some containers already support some 0.9 features. > > I've been testing in the Orkut/iGoogle sandboxes, but not everything > > 0.9 seems to work there yet. (Although it's hard to tell if this is > > due to stuff I just don't understand yet, or whether some stuff is > > still NYI. Any tips where should I look for updates?) > > Official announcements will be made athttp://igoogledeveloper.blogspot.com/ > andhttp://orkutdeveloper.blogspot.com/for all significant changes or > additions. This group is also a good place to lurk. > > > > > After lots more reading/testing I do think I'll bite the bullet and go > > down the proxied content, OSML + JS makeRequest route. The scaling > > benefits are just too tasty to pass up. Is the Quartermile app you > > demo'd at I/O available as a sample or open source? It would rock to > > see a more beefy example, including backend implementation. > > Like you followed up, the source is available, but in an incomplete > form. I have an assignment to get the entire thing "productionized" > this quarter, so hopefully you'll see some updates to that project in > the next couple of weeks :) > > > > > > In this case it's probably a case of the samples not being fully > > > baked. Can you elaborate more on what problems you're seeing on IE? > > > AFAIK, there isn't anything keeping OSML from working on IE. > > > I think this a JS bug in the sample, not a problem with OSML itself. > > Repro: run 0.9 OpenSocial Mashup sample (http://wiki.opensocial.org/ > > index.php?title=Social_Mashup_Tutorial, full code linked at bottom) in > > the Orkut sandbox in IE, and click the "Give!" button. This generates > > an Object Expected error on line 34. > > Thanks, we'll take a look at it. > > > > > This is a pretty trivial bug, but for me it underscores the value of > > encapsulating JS/HTML functionality in OSML/templates to leverage the > > x-browser JS implementation/HTML rendering smarts of someone who is > > hopefully better at it than I am. And yeah, I understand that this > > type of interactivity isn't handled by OSML/templates yet... but I can > > dream! :-) > > Yeah, although if you're writing any JS at all, there's always the > chance that some browser will choke on something. For example, this > notation: > > var data = { > "key" : "value", > > }; > > fails in IE while working in most other browsers (the comma after > "value" is at fault here). To get around writing any JS at all, some > people have found some success at using GWT to write gadgets. > Theoretically, you could write an app entirely in Java using Servlets > and GWT (and utilizing Proxied Content and OSML) but I haven't seen > any samples put all of it together in a really easy-to-use framework > yet. > > ~Arne > > > > > thanks, > > ~Susan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Application Development" group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
