Apache Shindig Albums & MediaItems Implemented for CMIS Proof Of Concept

[Eric Woods]

Hi everyone,

As you may know, I'm working to align the CMIS & OpenSocial specifications.

In addition to a bi-directional mapping utility that maps MediaItems to CMIS documents, I have recently implemented the Albums & MediaItems services within Apache Shindig.  This represents a major step in our efforts.  With a working implementation of Albums & MediaItems, our approach is to next swap out Shindig's sample JSON database with a CMIS-compliant repository.  Client OpenSocial gadgets will see no difference with the Albums & MediaItems interfaces, but these items will be persisted on the back-end in a CMIS-compliant repository (currently using Apache Chemistry's OpenCMIS).  Next steps are to write a sample OpenSocial gadget that exposes the Albums & MediaItems services and to write the CMIS back-end component for Shindig.

Refer to our Wiki for more details or to track my progress: http://wiki.opensocial.org/index.php?title=Align_CMIS_and_OpenSocial

The reference implementation for Albums & MediaItems can be found here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-1410

All feedback is welcome.

Thanks,
Eric W.