IBM Sharable Code: A Ruby internal DSL and online platform for
mashups development and management

SPEAKER BIO:

Dr. E. Michael Maximilien, (aka "max") is a research staff member at
IBM's Almaden Services Research group in San Jose, California. He can
be reached through his Web site (www.maximilien.com) and
blog.maximilien.com.

ABSTRACT:

IBM Sharable Code is an online research service platform for
developing and sharing situational Web 2.0 applications and mashups.
The platform is based on an inventive domain-specific language (DSL)
that streamlines and principles the design and development of
applications consuming Web APIs and exposing such APIs. Parts of the
DSL and the resulting applications and mashups can be shared and
reused by members of the IBM Sharable Code community. Sharable Code
mashups can be deployed and tested online, downloaded as Ruby gems, or
remotely deployed to compute clouds such as Amazon EC2 and others.
Current direction of the Sharable Code platform is to allow the
mashups to also be deployed as Facebook or OpenSocial applications
thereby allowing the mashups to take advantage and blend into these
social utility platforms.

In this I talk will give an overview of the platform's architecture as
well as the DSL language that constitute its centerpiece. I will also
demonstrate the platform with some simple examples.

REFERENCES:

http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/isc/
http://knoesis1.wright.edu/isc/

Presentations:

http://www.maximilien.com/talks/2008/swashup_platform_accenture.pdf

Papers:

http://maximilien.org/publications/papers/2007/Maximilien+Ranabahu+Tai07.pdf
http://maximilien.org/publications/papers/2007/Maximilien+07b.pdf

Hello all,

JRuby is fast becoming a solid (and possibly preferred choice) for deploying Rails apps. Rich Manalang from Oracle will talk about how he and a small team from ThoughtWorks developed the first public deployment of JRuby on Rails (https://mix.oracle.com) last November. He will go over JRuby basics, the advantages of deploying on JRuby, the differences between JRuby and MRI, and run through several deployment options.

Please come and join us, and as always, food and refreshments will be served!

Cheers,
- Will Sobel
The Organizer

Greetings,

ELC Tech will be presenting the next big thing on the web. If you thought Facebook API was cool, imagine the Facebook API for all social sites, now you've got OpenSocial. This effort is being championed by Google and others. More and more sites are signing up and ELC has developed a Rails plugin that will let you use this new standard with ease.

If you want to find out what everyone's going to be talking about, come on over to the woz and join us for the January meetup.

Hope to see you there...
- Will

Here's the blurb from their press release:

ELC developed its OpenSocial Container using a combination of Ruby on Rails, and Javascript, allowing developers to quickly and simply deploy new OpenSocial applications. ELC?s OpenSocial container provides a secure host for Ruby on Rails developers to use the OpenSocial API calls in a controlled fashion. The ELC OpenSocial Container also provides an open, well-documented, and portable platform to create new OpenSocial APIs that can be used for multiple social media sites.

"We have a number of social networking clients, such as Cisco and MediaTrust, who retain ELC to help develop next-generation social media applications and also desire to support OpenSocial. Developing an open source plug-in was a logical step for ELC," said Ryan Garver, CTO of ELC Technologies. "With the release of this open source plug-in for OpenSocial, we hope to make it easier for the Ruby on Rails community to bring new third-party OpenSocial plug-ins to emerging social networking sites."

Since the release of Google's OpenSocial API November 1st, a number of social networking communities have embraced the new API, including Plaxo, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Six Apart. The ELC container supports the three common OpenSocial APIs: the People and Friends API that lets applications update profile and contact information; the Activities data API that lets applications view and publish ?actions?; and the Persistence API that lets applications edit content for an existing application, user, or gadget and query the content using an existing feed (ideal for pushing content to gadgets).

For more information about ELC's OpenSocial Application Container, visit them on the Web at ELC Tech.

Hey everyone,

We'll be meeting at Lightbeam Systems again this month. As of next month we will be meeting in the Woz at UC Berkeley, more details to follow.

Max from the IBM Almaden Research Center will be presenting his new mashup platform called Swashup. This should be a really good presentation and I'm very exited!

Here's the details...

Swashup
A platform and domain-specific language for building and managing situational Web applications and mashups built on Ruby on Rails

Abstract:

In this talk we demonstrate a RoR-based online platform and Domain-Specific Language (DSL) for Web APIs mashups.

Distributed programming has shifted from private networks to the public Internet and from using private and controlled services to increasingly using publicly available heterogeneous Web services (e.g., REST, SOAP, RSS, and Atom). This move enables the creation of innovative end-user-oriented composed services with user interfaces. These services mashups are typically point solutions to specific (specialized) problems; however, what is missing is a programming model that facilitates and accelerates creation and deployment of mashups of diverse services. In this talk we describe a domain-specific language that unifies the most common service models and facilitates service composition and integration into end-user-oriented Web applications. We demonstrate our approach with an implementation that leverages the Ruby on Rails framework.

Links:

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com <= Service and download available on 11/29/2007

http://maximilien.org/publications/papers/2007/Maximilien+07b.pdf
http://maximilien.org/publications/papers/2007/Maximilien+Ranabahu+Tai07.pdf

Hope to see you there!

- Will Sobel, Allan Miller, Ed Allen
The Organizers