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Project Lead: Holger Staudacher (IRC: staudi)
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#REDIRECT [[ECF/REST abstraction]]
 
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Mentor: Scott Lewis, Marcelo Mayworm
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This project is part of the [[Google Summer of Code 2009]]
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==Abstract==
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Many service providers using a REST based API to offer developers access to their services, i.e. [http://apiwiki.twitter.com/ Twitter], [http://developers.facebook.com/?ref=pf Facebook] and so on. The result of this is that some third parties provide Java based libraries, which covers this API's. The [[Eclipse_Communication_Framework_Project|ECF]] team played a little bit with the Twitter API and use therefore a library called [http://yusuke.homeip.net/twitter4j/en/index.html Twitter4J]. <br>The disadvantage of this technique is a dependency to the third parties library. This means an ECF container based on such a library is dependent on the diversity of this.
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To decouple these dependencies an own ECF based REST abstraction should be created within this [http://socghop.appspot.com/ GSoC] project.
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==Primary goals==
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* A full working API for the REST client side to communicate to any RESTful web service.
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== Additional goals ==
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* Upgrading the Twitter Provider to use this REST API
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<div style="clear: right; border: solid #aaa 1px; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 90%; background: #f9f9f9; width: 250px; padding: 4px; text-align: left; float: right;">
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'''Legend'''
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[[Image:Glass.gif]] Needs some investigation/research
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[[Image:Progress.gif]] Work in progress
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[[Image:Ok_green.gif]] Bug fixed / Feature added
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</div>
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== Timeline ==
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Here is a complete list of the milestones and release candidates planned for this plugin.
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
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|- style="background:#efefef;"
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! Milestone !! Date !! Planned items !! status
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|- style="background:lightgrey;"
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! M1
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| June 16
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|align="left"| Implementation of the ECF Remote Services API for REST
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| [[Image:Ok_green.gif]] see [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=275723 bug 275723]
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|- style="background:lightgrey;"
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! M2
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| June 28
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|align="left"| Architecture for REST webservices (POST, GET, UPDATE, DELETE)
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| [[Image:Ok_green.gif]] see [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=281101 bug 281101]
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|- style="background:lightgrey;"
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! M3
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| July 15
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|align="left"| Couple the abstraction layer with the remote service API implementation
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| [[Image:Ok_green.gif]]
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|- style="background:lightgrey;"
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! M4
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| July 26
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|align="left"| The resource representation concept
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| [[Image:Ok_green.gif]] see [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=281097 bug 281097]
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|- style="background:lightgrey;"
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! M5
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| July 31
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|align="left"| Implementation of some resource representations (XML, JSON and so on)
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| [[Image:Ok_green.gif]] see [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=281102 bug 281102], [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=282433 bug 282433] and [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=281104 bug 281104]
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|- style="background:lightgrey;"
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! RC1
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| August 4
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|align="left"| Round up the API and writing documentation
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| [[Image:Ok_green.gif]] see [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=281106 bug 281106], [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=284761 bug 284761], [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=283053 bug 283053]
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|- style="background:lightgrey;"
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! RC2
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| August 8
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|align="left"| Fix some bugs
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| [[Image:Ok_green.gif]] see [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=%5Brest%5D&product=ECF&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&order=Importance query]
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|- style="background:lightgrey;"
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! Pencils down
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| August 16
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|align="left"| Make the contribution ready for ECF
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| [[Image:Ok_green.gif]]
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|}
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== Community Involvement ==
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=== Getting the source ===
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See the appropriate project set below.
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Project set file for ECF committers:
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<pre>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<psf version="2.0">
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  <provider id="org.eclipse.team.cvs.core.cvsnature">
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    <project reference="1.0,:extssh:ecf1.osuosl.org:/home/cvs/ecf,rest/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest,org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest"/>
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    <project reference="1.0,:extssh:ecf1.osuosl.org:/home/cvs/ecf,rest/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.tests.remoteservice.rest,org.eclipse.ecf.tests.remoteservice.rest"/>
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    <project reference="1.0,:extssh:ecf1.osuosl.org:/home/cvs/ecf,rest/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.tests.remoteservice.rest.resources,org.eclipse.ecf.tests.remoteservice.rest.resources"/>
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    <project reference="1.0,:extssh:ecf1.osuosl.org:/home/cvs/ecf,rest/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest.resource.json.jackson,org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest.resource.json.jackson"/>
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    <project reference="1.0,:extssh:ecf1.osuosl.org:/home/cvs/ecf,rest/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest.resource.json.org,org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest.resource.json.org"/>
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    <project reference="1.0,:extssh:ecf1.osuosl.org:/home/cvs/ecf,rest/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest.resource.rss,org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest.resource.rss"/>
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    <project reference="1.0,:extssh:ecf1.osuosl.org:/home/cvs/ecf,rest/bundles/org.json,org.json"/>
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    <project reference="1.0,:extssh:ecf1.osuosl.org:/home/cvs/ecf,rest/bundles/org.codehaus.jackson, org.codehaus.jackson"/>
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  </provider>
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</psf>
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</pre>
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Project set file for anonymous CVS access:
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<pre>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<psf version="2.0">
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  <provider id="org.eclipse.team.cvs.core.cvsnature">
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    <project reference="1.0,:pserver:ecf1.osuosl.org:/ecf,rest/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest,org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest"/>
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    <project reference="1.0,:pserver:ecf1.osuosl.org:/ecf,rest/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.tests.remoteservice.rest,org.eclipse.ecf.tests.remoteservice.rest"/>
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    <project reference="1.0,:pserver:ecf1.osuosl.org:/ecf,rest/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.tests.remoteservice.rest.resources,org.eclipse.ecf.tests.remoteservice.rest.resources"/>
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    <project reference="1.0,:pserver:ecf1.osuosl.org:/ecf,rest/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest.resource.json.jackson,org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest.resource.json.jackson"/>
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    <project reference="1.0,:pserver:ecf1.osuosl.org:/ecf,rest/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest.resource.json.org,org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest.resource.json.org"/>
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    <project reference="1.0,:pserver:ecf1.osuosl.org:/ecf,rest/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest.resource.rss,org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest.resource.rss"/>
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    <project reference="1.0,:pserver:ecf1.osuosl.org:/ecf,rest/bundles/org.json,org.json"/>
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    <project reference="1.0,:pserver:ecf1.osuosl.org:/ecf,rest/bundles/org.codehaus.jackson, org.codehaus.jackson"/>
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  </provider>
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</psf>
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</pre>
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When the project's finished the code will be published on the appropriate [http://code.google.com/p/restecf/ Google Code Site].
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=== Open issues ===
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DS for ResourceRepresentations (see bug [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=285294 285294])
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=== New ideas ===
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Do you have a great idea for the REST abstraction? Just open a [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=ECF new feature request].
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=== Links ===
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*[http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF/REST_abstraction Proposal]
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*[https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=275722 REST abstraction for ECF Bug]
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[[Category:SOC]]
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