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The IBM Social Business Platform

Social Business Application Development

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Philippe RiandSTSM

ICS Social Application Development Architect

Lead Architect for XPages and Domino App Dev

Former CTO of TrilogGroup

Agenda

ICS Social Application Development Strategy

Introduction to the Social Business Toolkit SDK

Conclusion

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ICS social application development strategy

ApplicationDevelopment

Reach the broaderset of developers

EmbraceOpen Standards

Nurture and entertain acommunity of developers

Provide an easy accessto the platform

Enable the community

Make it easy toconsume the platform

Reaching a broader group of developers

Use the technologies that current developers use

Develop components using Web and Mobile technologies

HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, Mobile native and hybrid

Provide language independent data access using REST services

Wrap the APIs for different languages.

Target different platforms

IBM preferred platforms (WebSphere, IBM Domino...) and others (PHP, Ruby, .NET...)

Minimize the technology dependencies

Support many libraries and tooling

Dojo, JQuery, and other JavaScript libraries

Eclipse, IBM Rational Application Developer, IBM Domino Designer

Run the same components into different containers

Minimize the porting effort across the containers

Plain web applications, OpenSocial Gadgets, Portlets, iWidgets, Web Parts...

Embracing open standards

Enabling the next generation of socially-enabled solutions to enhance customers' existing investments and heterogeneous platforms

Focus on open standards and “loosely coupled” web-centric architectures

A commitment to drive and leverage open standards

Maximize choice, flexibility, and ease of integration

Drive enterprise innovation and leverage rapid innovation on the public web

Minimize incremental cost of targeting additional desktop and mobile platforms

Leverage dominant skill-sets based around web technologies

Making it easier to consume the platform

Get developers started in minutes

Test the IBM APIs and Services directly from the cloud, without having to install anything

Make the on premises install as simple as possible

Provide reusable code libraries

Encapsulate the services access into easy to use libraries

Call any service with a few lines of code

Provide a large set of code snippets

Understand how the APIs can be used by looking at the self-documented snippets

Copy, paste and run the code samples directly to your own application

Provide an extended documentation

Make the documentation live in a constantly updated wiki

Provide developer API documentation generated from the source code (Java/JavaScript doc)

Provide easier access to the platformThe IBM Quickstart Image for Social Business

Includes the latest version of IBM Connections, Notes/Domino and Sametime, all configured together with a sample set of users. The SDK is also pre-installed!

Pre-integrated software appliance

IBM Social Business Toolkit APIs

IBM Social Business Core Modules

Workflow and forms

IBM Domino

Social collaboration

IBM Connections

Unified communications

IBM Sametime

IBM Social Business Toolkit

SDK

IBM Social Business Toolkit

Playground

VMWare® IBM developerWorks Cloud

Nurture and enable a community of developers

#ibmsbt

/OpenNTF/SocialSDK

http://ibmsbt.openntf.org/

http://ibmdw.net/social

http://bit.ly/VyedAB

Product documentation in wikis

Developer Workshops

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn

StackOverflow

GitHUB

http://www.youtube.com/user/IBMSBT

YouTube Channel

http://www.slideshare.net/IBMSBT

SlideShare

https://twitter.com/ibmsbt

New developerWorks site for Social Business

Landing page for Social Business application developers

http://ibmdw.net/social

http://developer.ibm.com/social

Content

Gettting started information for different types of developers

Blog and news

Events

Community links, esp. StackOverflow and GitHub

Documentation navigator

Part of bigger IBM developerWorks effort

Plan to provide new topical sites like social, cloud, mobile, big data, and analytics

Focus on the specific content rather than everything IBM related

Focus on community, including non IBM-owned sites

Agenda

ICS Social Application Development Strategy

Introduction to the Social Business Toolkit SDK

Conclusion

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The IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK

Let developers add social capabilities to their applications in minutes

Through the consumption of ready to use code libraries

Not a new set of APIs, but helpers on top of the existing APIs

Illustrated by many comprehensive examples that can simply be copy/paste to existing applications

And established developer patterns for social business

Target the broader range of developers

Focus on web technologies: HTML, JavaScript and CSS

But also support Java developers, and more over time

Supports J2EE and OSGI based servers, and more to come

Supports on-premises and cloud deployments

Delivered as an open source project (Apache 2.0 license) and available on GitHub

External contributions will be accepted

Supported using a community on developerWorks and OpenNTF

SDK Keypoints

Easy to consume, starting library for any application developer

Saves application developers from writing cumbersome, static code

Isolates various characteristics related to connectivity to social services

Makes it easy to switch between multiple environments (production, development, etc..)

Isolates complexity related to authentication mechanisms

The application code is agnostic of the underlying authentication mechanism

No more demo/poc code that should be revisited later

Complex authentication flows are handled seamlessly by the SDK

Currently supports OAuth 1.0a, OAuth 2.0, and Basic authentication

SSO (LTPA, SAML) are experimentally supported for now

Provides easy to use objects with many code examples

Low level APIs for directly consuming REST services

Higher level objects with advanced capabilities (caching, etc.)

Hide some platform specific requirements (ie: OpenSocial XHR API, Portlet APIs, etc...)

The IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK – Now!

Sample Applications

OpenSocial

Support

Security

Code Snippets

Language Bindings Developer Playground

DocumentationServer Assets

J2EE/Domino

Pre-configured Tomcat

Social Business Playground – Today and Next

Live on Greenhouse

Delivered with the source code as part of the SDK

Code snippets

JavaScript, Java, XPages...

API Explorer

API Documentation

http://bit.ly/sbtplayground

Social Business Toolkit SDK – Samples

The SDK comes with several sample applications

JavaScript code snippets

Java code snippets

Full-fledged ACME Airlines demo application

Shows the use of social capabilities within an existing application

JavaScript developers experience

The SDK is included with a single line of code

A script tag pointing to the toolkit

Uses the AMD notation for maximum performance and modularity

The JavaScript contains many easy to use functions

Uses existing libraries (Dojo, JQuery) under the cover, but exposes a library agnostic API

Comprehensible, customizable Dijits

Java developers experience

Add the jar files/OSGI plug-ins to your development

Works on J2EE and Domino servers

And uses any of the APIs

Supports web and stand-alone Java client applications

The Java and JavaScript APIs are consistent

The IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK – Next!

Language BindingsDeveloper Playground

Server Assets

Reusable DijitsWebSphere Portal

Patterns

Mobile SupportQuick Start Image

SmarterWorkforce

Agenda

ICS Social Application Development Strategy

Introduction to the Social Business Toolkit SDK

Conclusion

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Adding social features to your application

Find and customize samples

Start with the samples in the Playground

Edit the samples and test your changes

Eventually, deploy the pre-configured TOMCAT instance

Unzip the provided zip file on a Windows/Linux machine

Include SDK libraries in your application

Add jars to web application or deploy SDK feature to Domino

Include the SDK JavaScript libraries in your application pages

Configure endpoints

The SDK is a Collaborative, Open, Social Project

We want your feedback

Let us know what is good, what is not and what you'd like to see

Help us building the roadmap

Tell us about your priorities

We want your active participation

Participate to the community

Report bugs, and eventually solutions

Grow your reputation on Stackoverflow

Contribute code to the SDK and code snippets

Support languages & environments we do not (PHP, .NET...)

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