Rave in Context Easy widget creation for all Sander van der Waal, OSS Watch @sandervdwaal, http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk
Oct 30, 2014
Rave in ContextEasy widget creation for all
Sander van der Waal, OSS Watch@sandervdwaal, http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk
Rave in Context: Build usable multi-platform widgets easily
About us
Rave in Context: Build usable multi-platform widgets easily
What is Rave in Context?
The Rave in Context project develops progressively enhanced, usable, accessible, learnable and adaptable W3C widget templates and widgets that can be used
for Apache Wookie and Apache Rave (both Incubating).
• Publicly funded 6 months project
• Building a Proof of Concept
• Integrating results into pre-existing projects
Rave in Context: Build usable multi-platform widgets easily
W3C widgets & Wookie
W3C widget specifications
Packaging and Configuration The Widget Interface
Apache Wookie (Incubating)Widget runtimeDeploy W3C widgets
Rave in Context: Build usable multi-platform widgets easily
*able widgets
Rave in Context: Build usable multi-platform widgets easily
*able widgets
Rave in Context: Build usable multi-platform widgets easily
Generic widget functionality
Rave in Context: Build usable multi-platform widgets easily
Widget templates Only specify widget-specific needs:
Name
Description
Help text
REST API url
Etc..
Generate widget with properties defined
Rave in Context: Build usable multi-platform widgets easily
Deploy in Wookie
Widgets built in the project
Rave in Context: Build usable multi-platform widgets easily
http://www.opendoar.org/
http://www.myexpriment.org/
http://code.google.com/p/simal/
Rave in Context: Build usable multi-platform widgets easily
The Rave projectApache Rave (Incubating) is a lightweight and extensible Web
and Social Mashup engine, to host, serve and aggregate Gadgets, Widgets and general (social) network and web services
with a highly customizable Web 2.0 friendly front-end.
Targets Enterprise-level intranet, extranet, portal, web and mobile sitesCan be used 'out-of-the-box' or as an embeddable engineTransparent integration and usage of OpenSocial Gadgets, W3C Widgets, …Will enhance this with context-aware cross-component communication, collaboration and content integration features
Rave in Context: Build usable multi-platform widgets easily
Default Rave portal
Rave in Context: Build usable multi-platform widgets easily
Deploy in Rave
Rave in Context: Build usable multi-platform widgets easily
The Future Hosting of gadgets & widgets separate from projects
Separate apache-extras site to be created for hosting that code
Potentially widgets & gadgets from related projects
Callback (fka Phonegap)
Sakai
Templates for generating widgets & gadgets
Towards Gidgets.. ?
Rave in Context: Build usable multi-platform widgets easily
Get involved!Project site:
http://oss.ly/3e
http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/rave-in-context/
Apache Wookie (Incubating):
http://incubator.apache.org/wookie
Apache Rave (Incubating):
http://incubator.apache.org/rave