Hi All,
 
I want to create a Social App on orkut but having many doubts. Though I've read the Developers Guide on orkut but no clear about the basic concept of this new growing technology. My doubts are below. Please try to help me.
 
0) First and the most confusion for me is what is the Gadget file? Is this contains the actual application which we want to show on orkut or any other social site. Coz what I'm getting is, the Gadget file and our actual application are two different things, physically atleast. Our application will contains our data to show to user and the gadget file will be needed to connect it to the social container and making our application open social oriented by using the legacy gadgets libraries.
 
1) The actual content of my application which will be visible on orkut, means the web-site which I will create, should reside on my web-server?
 
2) Can I create this site in any language - PhP, ASP, ASP.Net to make it dynamic?
 
3) If yes, then how could the Gadget file (XML file) which resides on my server will
connect to/show this site content because the Gadget file can contains only HTML & Javascript. How could I render my site content in the gadget file in such dynamic environment where the data comes from a Database.
 
4) If I use content type=url in the gadget file then my whole site gets pull down at orkut and without any other codes to be written in the gadget file!!!!!
 
5) If we can do the above with so ease then why there is so many libraries created like, gadget.* API, legacy gadget API. What are their use?
 
6) I know RESTful Data API is not on the stage right now coz no container is supporting the 0.8 version but what is the use of this so called Server side API tool. In the future do we need to create our site in this API to get on the Social Network?
 
I know the list have gone pretty long and somewhat difficult to answere but considered to have a thought on.
 
I'm stucked at my first stage of the development coz Im not getting a clear idea about this.
Please try to answere my queries.
 
Thanks in advance.
 
Javed Iqbal.

you can have some of the app process in your server and call the
contents from server using makeRequest APIs.

AND..yes, you can use PHP, ASP, etc., in your server. I used PHP for
the app I submitted few days ago.

gadget.*.API is really useful, for example for makeRequest kind of
thing.

Did you get a chance to go thru http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/?
These articles can save you lot of time.

On Jul 19, 12:27 pm, javed ansari <javediq_...@yahoo.com> wrote: