Make use of the Activity Stream, oAuth and XPages in your Social Business applications.

1. Yellow and Blue stream
Make use of the Activity Stream, oAuth and XPages in your Social
Business applications.
Frank van der Linden

2. Agenda
Introduction
Yellow and Blue
oAuth and OpenSocial
Activity Stream
Yellow and Blue System
Connect to the Activity Stream
Under the hood
Q&A

3. Frank van der Linden
I live in Utrecht in the Netherlands.
My role is XPages/Domino/Web
developer at e-office since 2000. So I
started with Lotus Notes 4.5.x.
I develop XPages application since the
introduction of XPages in Lotus Notes
8.5.0.
In my spare time I do a lot of running and
then I mean a lot.

4. Agenda
Introduction
Yellow and Blue
oAuth and OpenSocial
Activity Stream
Yellow and Blue System
Connect to the Activity Stream
Under the hood
Q&A

5. Blue
process | control | predictable
manage | low costs | mechanical
structure & process
9 to 5 | no errors | internal focus
no change | control | process leading

6. Yellow
knowledge | information | everywhere
network | creativity | goal oriented
smart & flexible
intrinsically | independent | trust
collaborate | discipline | facilitate

7. Yellow and Blue
Adaptive organization
Flexible, able to change directions
Also predictable
We have build a system to bring both
worlds together.

8. Agenda
Introduction
Yellow and Blue
oAuth and OpenSocial
Activity Stream
Yellow and Blue System
Connect to the Activity Stream
Under the hood
Q&A

9. What is oAuth?
oAuth (Open Authorization) is an open standard for
authorization
It allows users to share their resources stored on one
site with another site without having to hand out their
credentials
oAuth allows users to hand out tokens instead of
credentials to their data hosted by a given service
provider.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth

10. oAuth, the 3 leg dance

11. oAuth in the real world

12. OpenSocial
Public specification that defines a component
hosting environment (container)
Based on HTML and JavaScript, as well as
the Google gadgets framework
OpenSocial adopted support for Activity
Streams format
OpenSocial API and oAuth support
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial

13. Agenda
Introduction
Yellow and Blue
oAuth and OpenSocial
Activity Stream
Yellow and Blue System
Connect to the Activity Stream
Under the hood
Q&A

14. Activity Stream
It is part of the Social Business Toolkit
It is the stream of all information
API’s to connect to the stream
It will be part of IBM Connections Next and
Lotus Notes Social Edition.
oAuth authentication.
Support of OpenSocial gadget specification.

15. Agenda
Introduction
Yellow and Blue
oAuth and OpenSocial
Activity Stream
Yellow and Blue System
Connect to the Activity Stream
Under the hood
Q&A

16. Yellow and Blue system
Get information from
IBM Connections
IBM Lotus Domino
Google
Social Business Toolkit

17. Yellow and Blue system
Tooling used
XPages
oAuth
Social enabler from OpenNTF
Java and managed beans
HTML5

18. Flow diagram

19. Demo

20. Agenda
Introduction
Yellow and Blue
oAuth and OpenSocial
Activity Stream
Yellow and Blue System
Connect to the Activity Stream
Under the hood
Q&A

21. Connect to the Activity Stream
If you don’t have an account for Greenhouse, go get it
(https://greenhouse.lotus.com)

22. Connect to the Activity Stream
oAuth is used, so you need to register your
app.(https://greenhouse.lotus.com/vulcan/security/prov
ider/appList?serviceProvider=vulcanToolkit)

23. Connect to the Activity Stream
Get the Extension Library of OpenNTF, the 8.5.3 code stream
Install the Extension Library on Designer and Domino server
Deploy the Social Enabler database to your Domino server
Deploy the WebSecurityStore database to the root of your
Domino server
And sign both databases with the correct ID.

24. Connect to the Activity Stream
The start point is KeysApplications.xsp in the
WebSecurityStore database

25. Connect to the Activity Stream
Create an Application Token
Fill in the oAuth keys and the endpoints

26. Connect to the Activity Stream
In the Domino Designer go to
the Package Explorer
Go to the faces-config.xml

27. Connect to the Activity Stream
NSFStore managed bean is used for the location of
the WebSecurityStore database
It will be used by other Managed beans to store oAuth
data.

28. Connect to the Activity Stream
greenHouse managed bean is used to specify the
oAuthEndpoint, and were to store.
AppId is the id, who is used as Application name in the
SBT application registration page

29. Connect to the Activity Stream
Use the ActivityStreamData object as datasource
The service URL: vulcan/shindig/rest/activitystreams
Endpoint: greenHouse, as stated in the Faces-config.xml
Give the datasource a variable name, so you can connect to it in your
ViewPanel
Specify in your ViewPanel as value the variable name of the datasource
And give the ViewPanel also a variable name

30. Connect to the Activity Stream
Activity Stream JSON - use full properties
Title: entry.title
Posted date: new java.util.Date(parseInt(entry.postedTime)
ID: entry.id
Image: entry.actor.image.url
Body: entry.body
JSON of the links to the source: entry.standardLinks.alternate[0].inline

31. Agenda
Introduction
Yellow and Blue
oAuth and OpenSocial
Activity Stream
Yellow and Blue System
Connect to the Activity Stream
Under the hood
Q&A

32. XPages and Java
One managed bean controls everything

33. XPages and Java
It delegate the tasks to other Java classes

34. XPages and Java
An event handler triggered a generic Java
method via the managed bean
Results will be stored in a Java Object
Partial refresh of a panel gets the information

35. Agenda
Introduction
Yellow and Blue
oAuth and OpenSocial
Activity Stream
Yellow and Blue System
Connect to the Activity Stream
Under the hood
Q&A

36. Q&A

37. How to reach me
Twitter:@flinden68
Blog: http://www.domino-weblog.nl
E-mail: fli@e-office.com