Extensibility of IBM Connections using XPages and Open Source from OpenNTF

1. Extensibility of IBM Connections using
XPages and Open Source from OpenNTF
Niklas Heidloff, IBM
Social Connections
November 2012

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3. Agenda
 OpenNTF
 New IBM Social Business Toolkit for Web and Java Developers
 Activity Stream Service API for XPages Developers
 Generic HTML and XPages iWidgets
 OpenSocial Gadgets and Embedded Experience

4. OpenNTF.org
 Open source for IBM Collaboration Solutions
 360 new open source releases and 200.000 downloads per year
 Development Contests
– More than 100 contributions received in first three development contests
– Fourth development contest – win 5 x $1000
 Ongoing XSnippets contests
 Support for GitHub

5. OpenNTF – More than Open Source
 OpenNTF Inc. with 31 member companies
 XPages.info and CollaborationToday.info
 Questions on StackOverflow

6. Social Enabling Technologies
 Definition: Custom social applications
– Applications that provide social and collaborative functionality and/or
– Applications that leverage existing social software
 Social software as well as other cloud based and on-premises services provide REST APIs
– Custom social applications that leverage social software need to consume REST APIs
 Interoperability through open standards
HTML5 ARIA SAML

7. New IBM Social Business Toolkit for Web and Java Developers
 Targets the broader range of developers
– Focus on web technologies: HTML, JavaScript and CSS
– But also support Java developers, and more over time
 Simplifies access to …
– IBM Connections
– IBM SmartCloud for Social Business
– Other REST services
 Provides new APIs and services designed to help developers
build unified user experiences and consistent extensibility
independent of ...
– Product,
– Delivery model (cloud, on-premises) and
– Client type (desktop client, browser, mobile)

8. New IBM Social Business Toolkit for Web and Java Developers
 Isolates complexity related to authentication mechanisms
– Application code is agnostic of the underlying
authentication mechanism
– Credentials are managed centrally in a web security store
 Makes it easy to switch between multiple environments
 Provides easy to use objects with many code examples
– Low level APIs for directly consuming the REST services
– Higher level objects with advanced capabilities

9. New IBM Social Business Toolkit – Components
 SDK
– Available as open source
 Development community
– Wiki, Q&A, etc.
 IBM Collaboration QuickStart Social Business
– On IBM SmartCloud
– As downloadable image
 Playground
– Lets developers experiment the social functionality using a web based application
– Hosted on IBM Greenhouse and IBM SmartCloud

26. Social Enabler for XPages Developers
 XPages is IBM's rapid application development platform for web and mobile apps
 The social enabler is an infrastructure to invoke REST APIs
 Available on OpenNTF with samples to connect to …
– IBM Connections, IBM SmartCloud, Dropbox, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

27. OpenNTF Project: XPages for Connections
 Samples for how to use the social enabler against Connections
 Generic XPages and HTML iWidgets
 New: Activity Stream Service

42. Extensions to IBM Connections
 Embedded experiences in IBM Connections 4 can be built
via OpenSocial gadgets
 Home pages, communities and profiles can be extended using iWidgets

56. Embedded Experiences
 OpenSocial standard: OpenSocial gadgets
 Component model used by …
– IBM Connections activity streams
– IBM Connections Mail
– Planned for IBM Notes and iNotes
 Gadget types
– Generic URL gadgets
– Full OpenSocial gadgets

57. Extensions to IBM Connections
Scenario: Users can interact with Applications via the Embedded Experience
OpenSocial
Gadget