Plone Web Services:Panel Discussion

2009 Plone Conference, Budapest

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A Brief IntroductionSally Kleinfeldt, Jazkarta

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Why?

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www.housingmaps.com

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Twitter Clients

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What?

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XML-RPC

• Remote Procedure Call

• XML format message

• HTTP transport

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XML-RPC

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JSON-RPC

• Remote Procedure Call

• JSON format message (JavaScript Object Notation)

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JSON-RPC

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SOAP

• Simple Object Access Protocol

• Successor to XML-RPC

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SOAP

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REST

• REpresentational State Transfer

• Architectural style

• Resource oriented

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REST

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AtomPub

• Atom Publishing Protocol

• HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources

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AtomPub

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Atom

• Atom Syndication Format

• XML language for web feeds

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Atom

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Microformats

• Semantic markup

• Reuse existing XHTML tags

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Microformats

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Products

• SOAP: CIGNEX project

• REST: ATRest, gsxml

• Atom: Vice

• XML-RPC: wsapi4plone

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wsapi4plone

• Michael Mulich and Kevin Kalupson, Weblion

• Take advantage of Zope XML-RPC support

• Provide CRUD interface to Plone content objects

• Future: also provide JSON-RPC

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AtomPub for PloneMatt Wilkes

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Limitations of Zope 2

• Publisher only does HTTP GET and POST

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WSGI Middleware

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CMISMatt Hamilton, Netsight

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Content Management Interoperability Services

• Web services standard for content management

• Proposed by IBM, Microsoft, ECM, Alfresco...

• Approved for submission to OASIS public review process

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CMS Switch

• Is your current CMS a bummer?

• CMIS could make it easy to switch

• Alfresco has CMIS integrations with Drupal, Joomla, eZ Publish, and Confluence

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CMS Switch

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CMIS and Plone

• Participate in public review process?

• Create CMIS implementation?

• Plone Foundation support?

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True ConfessionsAlec Mitchell

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Experiences

• XML

• JSON

• High performance web services

• Integration of 3rd party web services in Plone (SOAP, XML-RPC, REST, JSON)

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More True ConfessionsCalvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up

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Experiences

• XML-RPC

• RDF/XML

• JSON and SimpleJSON

• jQuery

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Discussion

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