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REST abstraction for ECF

Revision as of 05:25, 26 April 2009 by Holger.staudacher.tasktop.com (Talk | contribs) (Primary goals)

Project Lead: Holger Staudacher (IRC: staudi)

Mentor: Scott Lewis, Marcelo Mayworm

This project is part of the Google Summer of Code 2009

Abstract

Many service providers using a REST based API to offer developers access to their services, i.e. Twitter, Facebook and so on. The result of this is that some third parties provide Java based libraries, which covers this API's. The ECF team played a little bit with the Twitter API and use therefore a library called Twitter4J.
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. To decouple these dependencies an own ECF based REST abstraction should be created within this GSoC project.

Primary goals

  • A full working API for the REST client side to communicate to any RESTful web service.

Additional goals

  • Upgrading the Twitter Provider to use this REST API

Legend

Glass.gif Needs some investigation/research

Progress.gif Work in progress

Ok green.gif Bug fixed / Feature added

Timeline

Here is a complete list of the milestones and release candidates planned for this plugin.

Milestone Date Planned items
M1 June 16 Implementation of the ECF Remote Services API for REST
M2 June 28 Architecture for REST webservices (POST, GET, UPDATE, DELETE)
M3 July 15 Couple the abstraction layer with the remote service API implementation
M4 July 26 The resource representation concept
M5 July 31 Implementation of some resource representations (XML, RDF, HTML and so on)
RC1 August 4 Round up the API and writing documentation
RC2 August 8 Fix some bugs
Pencils down August 11 -


Community Involvement

Getting the source

Google Code Project

Open issues

TBD

New ideas

Do you have a great idea for the REST abstraction? Just open a new feature request.

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