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

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

6. Yellow
smart & flexible
knowledge | information | everywhere
network | creativity | goal oriented
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/provid
er/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