How to become an OpenSocial Container?
So, you own a popular site and still wondering on how to get into this OpenSocial thing. You want your site to support OpenSocial standards and have no or little idea about where to start from. Well, to start from there’s nothing like “Getting Accepted” into opensocial, your site just needs to support the standards so that it could talk with standard API.
It was Google’s carelessness that they didn’t publish any tutorial on this before the launch. They just asked the other popular sites to get in. They should have published the articles and tutorials way before the launch. But better late than never, they have launched a sample container code which will surely give you a better understanding of the system not only on the conceptual level but on implementational level too.
You can download the sample code from the link given above or read the container’s wiki for more information on developement , integration, testing and interface.
It is written that this Service provider Interface (SPI) is just to demonstrate the system. And thus, it should be used for testing purposes only. This introductory SPI could have some major security risks, so, don’t do anything important or critical with them, just play around for the time being.
Moreover, the current version is 0.5, the version 1.0 is rumoured to be launched soon with lots of enhancements over the current version. The new SPI could be quite different from the current SPI, so containers should be ready to integrate with the newer one.
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