A panel discussion about Plone web services that took place at the 2010 Plone Symposium East. Participants were: Sally Kleinfeldt, Mike Mulich, Kevin Kalupson, Alan Runyan, and Calvin Hendryx-Parker.

1. Plone Web Services:
Panel Discussion
Plone Symposium East 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010

2. A Brief Introduction
Sally Kleinfeldt, Jazkarta
Friday, May 28, 2010

3. Why?
Friday, May 28, 2010

4. www.housingmaps.com
Friday, May 28, 2010

5. Twitter Clients
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6. What?
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7. XML-RPC
• Remote Procedure Call
• XML format message
• HTTP transport
Friday, May 28, 2010

8. XML-RPC
Friday, May 28, 2010

9. JSON-RPC
• Remote Procedure Call
• JSON format message (JavaScript Object
Notation)
Friday, May 28, 2010

10. JSON-RPC
Friday, May 28, 2010

11. SOAP
• Simple Object Access Protocol
• Successor to XML-RPC
Friday, May 28, 2010

12. SOAP
Friday, May 28, 2010

13. REST
• REpresentational State Transfer
• Architectural style
• Resource oriented
Friday, May 28, 2010

14. REST
Friday, May 28, 2010

15. AtomPub
• Atom Publishing Protocol
• HTTP-based protocol for creating and
updating web resources
Friday, May 28, 2010

16. AtomPub
Friday, May 28, 2010

17. Atom
• Atom Syndication Format
• XML language for web feeds
Friday, May 28, 2010

18. Atom
Friday, May 28, 2010

19. Microformats
• Semantic markup
• Reuse existing XHTML tags
Friday, May 28, 2010

20. Microformats
Friday, May 28, 2010

21. CMIS
• Content Management Interoperability
Standard
• Web services standard for content
management
• Proposed by IBM, Microsoft, ECM,
Alfresco...
• Approved for submission to OASIS public
review process
Friday, May 28, 2010

22. wsapi4plone
Mike Mulich, Penn State
Friday, May 28, 2010

23. wsapi4plone.core
• Weblion project, Michael Mulich and Kevin
Kalupson
• Take advantage of Zope XML-RPC support
• Provide CRUD interface to Plone content
objects
• Future: also provide JSON-RPC
Friday, May 28, 2010

24. wsapi4plone.parfait
• Expose wsapi4plone CRUD interface via
AtomPub
Friday, May 28, 2010

25. Limitations of Zope 2
• Publisher only does HTTP GET and POST
Friday, May 28, 2010

26. WSGI Middleware
Friday, May 28, 2010

27. Course Management
System Integration
Kevin Kalupson, Penn State
Friday, May 28, 2010

28. Course Management
System Integration
• Sharing courseware among Plone and
Drupal systems
• Publishing content from Plone to the
Course Management System
• Launching Tools and Content from Plone in
the Course Management System
Friday, May 28, 2010

29. Integration Strategies
Alan Runyan, Enfold Systems
Friday, May 28, 2010

30. Integration Strategies
• In-process vs broker
• SOAP, CMIS, OAI, SOA/Mule...
• Integrate or R&D?
• Integrate or Innovate? Integrate!!
Friday, May 28, 2010

31. True Confessions
Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up
Friday, May 28, 2010

32. Experiences
• XML-RPC
• RDF/XML
• JSON and SimpleJSON
• jQuery
Friday, May 28, 2010

33. Discussion
Friday, May 28, 2010