[seam-dev] Seam Social module in (pre)-alpha

[Dan Allen]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 18:10, Antoine Sabot-Durand <
antoine at sabot-durand.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For those who don't know me let me introduce myself. I'm a french senior
> consultant specialized in Java EE architecture (i don't work for Redhat but
> I manage a consultant team in a business unit of a small IT company in
> Paris)). I joined the Seam 3 project a few months ago after Devoxx and
> Lincoln invitation to work on Seam Social. The goal of this module is to
> provide CDI beans to manage communication with major Social Network
> (Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, ...).
>

Fantastic! Welcome aboard. We are thrilled to have you join us!


>
> I lost a lot of time exploring the available technical options to implement
> this module. I also had to learn CDI which is very different than Seam 2.X
> ;-) and had to wait for stabilization of some of the core module, to be sure
> of my choices.
>

It was certainly not time lost, but experience and expertise gained, I hope.
I'm very excited that you've accepted the challenge to learn the new model.
I, perhaps one of many, believe that it's a very compelling programming
model to learn and build on.


>
>
> I've just pushed The Seam Social module on Github :
> https://github.com/antoinesd/seam-social
>
> At the moment, it contains an web application that can manage an OAuth
> connexion to Twiiter and send an update status (I know it's not very
> spectacular, but there is more to come :-) ).


> I'm not quite sure of the next step, but I'll probably need some help to
> make the best out  of CDI to use extension or decorators for instance
> mapping JSON to pojo with Jackson. As i'm not an API designer guy your
> feedback and critics for improvement are off course more than welcomed.
>

Great! Given that we are nearing 20 developers on Seam 3, I'm confident
you'll get more than enough feedback. I'm excited to take a look once I
return from the road :) No doubt, it's something worth "tweeting" about :)

-Dan

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