I thought about this too a while back when I had a play writing a facebook app (I was expecting great things from this facebook development platform given how hyped it is, but was pretty disappointed). Another consideration is - what is the license of the Java API? 2008/5/12 Dan Allen <dan.j.allen(a)gmail.com&gt;: > Someone (I don't remember who) approached me at JavaOne and asked if > the Seam development team would consider adding a module that would > aid in the development of FaceBook apps in Java. Of course, in light > of the announcement today about FaceBook dropping support for the Java > API, this might put a damper on the initiative. Still, I like the idea > of helping developers create plugins for these social networks. It > could be a great opportunity for Seam to move into a new space (so we > are not siloed to standalone enterprise applications). I would imagine > it would just be a matter of wrapping the API in something more > accessible. > > Thoughts? > > -Dan > > -- > Dan Allen > Software consultant | Author of Seam in Action > > http://www.mojavelinux.com > http://manning.com/dallen > > NOTE: While I make a strong effort to keep up with my email on a daily > basis, life and work come first and, at times, keep me away from my mail > for a while. If you contact me, then don't hear back for more than a week, > it is very likely that I am excessively backlogged or the message was > caught in the spam filters. Please don't hesitate to resend a message if > you feel that it did not reach my attention. > _______________________________________________ > seam-dev mailing list > seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev > -- Pete Muir http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete http://www.seamframework.org

Well, I went to a couple of Open Social sessions in JavaOne. They are very much into Java. :) Also, Open Social seems to be complicated enough, with all its combination of REST calls and Javascript, that a wrapper of some sort (JSF or deeper in Seam) will make sense. cheers Michael On May 12, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Dan Allen wrote: > Well, since FaceBook gave Java the middle finger, we are looking at > the community anyway. There seems to be a decently maintained > community client licensed under the MIT license and hosted at Google > Code. > > http://code.google.com/p/facebook-java-api/ > > I am adding this on my "to play with" list, but that could be a > while. > > Again, the creation of Seam components for this task could even > rejuvenate interested from FaceBook (not that we really give a care). > I think it is more about understanding how to crawl into new markets. > > -Dan > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Pete Muir > <pmuir(a)bleepbleep.org.uk&gt; wrote: >> I thought about this too a while back when I had a play writing a >> facebook app (I was expecting great things from this facebook >> development platform given how hyped it is, but was pretty >> disappointed). >> >> Another consideration is - what is the license of the Java API? >> >> 2008/5/12 Dan Allen <dan.j.allen(a)gmail.com&gt;: >>> Someone (I don't remember who) approached me at JavaOne and asked >>> if >>> the Seam development team would consider adding a module that would >>> aid in the development of FaceBook apps in Java. Of course, in >>> light >>> of the announcement today about FaceBook dropping support for the >>> Java >>> API, this might put a damper on the initiative. Still, I like the >>> idea >>> of helping developers create plugins for these social networks. It >>> could be a great opportunity for Seam to move into a new space >>> (so we >>> are not siloed to standalone enterprise applications). I would >>> imagine >>> it would just be a matter of wrapping the API in something more >>> accessible. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> -Dan >>> >>> -- >>> Dan Allen >>> Software consultant | Author of Seam in Action >>> >>> http://www.mojavelinux.com >>> http://manning.com/dallen >>> >>> NOTE: While I make a strong effort to keep up with my email on a >>> daily >>> basis, life and work come first and, at times, keep me away from >>> my mail >>> for a while. If you contact me, then don't hear back for more >>> than a week, >>> it is very likely that I am excessively backlogged or the message >>> was >>> caught in the spam filters. Please don't hesitate to resend a >>> message if >>> you feel that it did not reach my attention. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> seam-dev mailing list >>> seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Pete Muir >> http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete >> http://www.seamframework.org >> > > > > -- > Dan Allen > Software consultant | Author of Seam in Action > > http://www.mojavelinux.com > http://manning.com/dallen > > NOTE: While I make a strong effort to keep up with my email on a > daily > basis, life and work come first and, at times, keep me away from my > mail > for a while. If you contact me, then don't hear back for more than > a week, > it is very likely that I am excessively backlogged or the message was > caught in the spam filters. Please don't hesitate to resend a > message if > you feel that it did not reach my attention. > _______________________________________________ > seam-dev mailing list > seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev _______________________________________________ seam-dev mailing list seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev

> Still, I like the idea > of helping developers create plugins for these social networks. It > could be a great opportunity for Seam to move into a new space (so we > are not siloed to standalone enterprise applications). I would > imagine > it would just be a matter of wrapping the API in something more > accessible. > > Thoughts? On a side note, one thing that I would like to see (yeah, yeah, patches welcome ;-) is RSS/ATOM syndication in the same way as PDF etc work