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1. IBM Innovate 2013
Social Applications Made Easy with the New
Social Business Toolkit SDK
Philippe Riand – Ryan Baxter
ICS Development Labs
priand@us.ibm.com, rjbaxter@us.ibm.com
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© 2013 IBM Corporation

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Agenda
 IBM Social Platform Overview
 ICS Social Application Development Strategy
 Introduction to the Social Business Toolkit SDK
 Conclusion

4. Overview
The IBM Social Business Platform, as part
of the multi-year vision for Exceptional Work
Experience, is bringing the IBM
Collaboration Solutions portfolio together
into a compelling, unified experience with
flexible delivery options.
The platform is designed to enable
consistent approaches across the web, the
desktop and the mobile environments; and
enable opportunity and innovation for
developers to build a Social Business.

5. The IBM Platform for Social
Business
Enabling “systems of engagement” solutions

6. Leveraging the IBM Social Platform
 Social fabric integration for Partners and in-house Apps and Services
 A set of RESTful, consistent, strategic social APIs and services to
simplify development and Social capabilities to applications
– APIs based on web patterns including JSON, HTML, ATOM, REST
– Open standards ready
 Simple, easy to use – Consistent programmability, use tools you know
 Unified integration – Build once, reuse across the portfolio
–Platform Independent – Consistency across products

IBM Connections, Portal/WCM, Notes/Domino, Sametime...
 Hybrid deployment, on premises and cloud
– Single focus of development investments, flexibility, hybrid scenario

7. Unified APIs for the IBM Social Business Toolkit
New APIs and services designed to help
developers build
unified user experiences
and
consistent extensibility
independent of product, delivery model
(cloud, on-premises), and client type (desktop
client, browser, mobile)
Activity
Streams
Embedded
Experiences Share Box
Collaboration
- email
- Communities
- Activities
- File sharing
- Wikis, forums,
blogs
- ...
Unified
Communication

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Agenda
 IBM Social Platform Overview
 ICS Social Application Development Strategy
 Introduction to the Social Business Toolkit SDK
 Summary

9. Application
Development
The Six Legs of the Application Development Strategy
Reach the broader
set of developers
Embrace
Open Standards
Nurture and entertain a
community of developers
Make the platform
Accessible
QuickStart image
Enable the community
Make it easy to
consume the platform
SDK

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Reach the Broader Group of Developers
 Use the technologies that current developers use
– Develop components using Web and Mobile technologies
• HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, Mobile native and hybrid
– Provide language independent data access using REST services
• Wrap the APIs for different languages.
 Target different platforms
– IBM preferred platforms (WebSphere, IBM Domino...) and others (PHP, Ruby, .NET...)
 Minimize the technology dependencies
– Support many libraries and tooling
• Dojo, JQuery, and other JavaScript libraries
• Eclipse, IBM Rational Application Developer, IBM Domino Designer
 Run the same components into different containers
– Minimize the porting effort across the containers
• Plain web applications, OpenSocial Gadgets, Portlets,
iWidgets, Web Parts...

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Embrace Open Standards
 Enabling the next generation of socially-enabled
solutions to enhance customers' existing investments
and heterogeneous platforms
– Focus on open standards and “loosely coupled” web-centric
architectures
 A commitment to drive and leverage open standards
– Maximize choice, flexibility, and ease of integration
– Drive enterprise innovation and leverage rapid innovation on
the public web
– Minimize incremental cost of targeting additional desktop and
mobile platforms
– Leverage dominant skill-sets based around web technologies

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Make It Easy to Consume the Platform
 Get developers started in minutes
– Test the IBM APIs and Services directly from the cloud, without having to install anything
– Make the on premises install as simple as possible
 Provide reusable code libraries
– Encapsulate the services access into easy to use libraries
– Call any service with a few lines of code
 Provide a large set of code snippets
– Understand how the APIs can be used by looking at the self-documented snippets
– Copy, paste and run the code samples directly to your own application
 Provide an extended documentation
– Make the documentation live in a constantly updated wiki
– Provide developer API documentation generated from the source code (Java/JavaScript doc)

13. QuickStart Image for Social Business
Pre-integrated software appliance
IBM Social Business Toolkit APIs
IBM Social Business Core Modules
Workflow and
forms
IBM Domino
Workflow and
forms
IBM Domino
Social
collaboration
IBM Connections
Social
collaboration
IBM Connections
Unified
communications
IBM Sametime
Unified
communications
IBM Sametime
IBM developerWorks CloudVMWare®
- Includes the latest version of the IBM products
all configured together with a sample set of data
- Provides a version of the SDK pre-installed, including the playground
IBM Social Business Toolkit
SDK
IBM Social Business Toolkit
Playground

14. Nurture and Enable the Community of Developers
#ibmsbt
/OpenNTF/SocialSDK
http://ibmsbt.openntf.org/
http://bit.ly/ibmsbtcommunity
http://bit.ly/VyedAB
Product documentation in wikis
Developer Workshops
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
StackOverflow
GitHub
http://bit.ly/sbtplayground

15. New DeveloperWorks Site for Social Business
 Landing page for social business application developers
– http://ibmdw.net/social
– http://developer.ibm.com/social
 Content
– Getting started information for different types of developers
– Blog and news
– Events
– Community links, esp. StackOverflow and GitHub
– Documentation navigator
 Part of a bigger IBM developerWorks effort
– Plan to provide new topical sites like social, cloud, mobile, big data, analytics
– Focus on the specific content rather than everything IBM related
– Focus on community, including non IBM-owned sites

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Agenda
 IBM Social Platform Overview
 ICS Social Application Development Strategy
 Introduction to the Social Business Toolkit SDK
 Conclusion

17. Introducing the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK
 Let developers add social capabilities to their applications in minutes
– Through the consumption of ready to use code libraries
• Not a new set of APIs, but helpers on top of the existing APIs
– Illustrated by many comprehensive examples that can simply be copy/paste to existing applications
• And established developer patterns for social business
 Target the broader range of developers
– Focus on web technologies: HTML, JavaScript and CSS
• But also support Java developers, and more over time
– Supports J2EE and OSGi based servers, and more to come
– Supports on-premises and cloud deployments
 Delivered as an open source project (Apache 2.0 license) and available on GitHub
– External contributions will be accepted
– Supported using a community on developerWorks and OpenNTF

18. SDK Keypoints
 Easy to consume, starting library for any application developer
 Saves application developers from writing cumbersome, static code
– Isolates various characteristics related to connectivity to social services, outside of the code
• Makes it easy to switch between multiple environments (production, development, test...)
– Isolates complexity related to authentication mechanisms
• The application code is agnostic of the underlying authentication mechanism.
–No more demo/poc code that should be revisited later
–Complex authentication flows are handled seamlessly by the SDK
• Currently supports OAuth 1.0a, OAuth 2.0 and Basic authentication.
–SSO (LTPA, SAML) are experimentally supported for now
–Provides easy to use objects with many code examples
– Low level APIs for directly consuming the REST services
– Higher level objects with advanced capabilities (caching, …)
– Hide some platform specific requirements (ex: OpenSocial xhr API, Portlet APIs...)

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IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK - Now!
Sample Applications
OpenSocial
Support
Security
Code Snippets
Language Bindings Developer Playground
Documentation
Server Assets
J2EE/Domino
Pre-configured Tomcat

20. Social Business Playground – Today and Next
 Live on IBM Greenhouse http://bit.ly/sbtplayground
 Delivered with the source code as part of the SDK
 Code Snippets
 JavaScript, Java, XPages...
 API Explorer
 API Documentation

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Social Business Toolkit SDK - Samples
 The SDK comes comes with several sample applications
– JavaScript code snippets
– Java code snippets
– Full-fledged ACME airline demo application
• Shows the use of social capabilities within an existing application

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24. JavaScript Developers Experience
 The SDK is included with a single line of code
– A script tag pointing to the toolkit
– And use any of the APIs
 Uses the AMD notation for maximum
performance and modularity
 The JavaScript contains many easy
to use functions
 Uses existing libraries (Dojo, JQuery...) under
the cover, but exposes a library agnostic API
 Comprehensible, customizable Dijits

25. Java Developers Experience
 Add the jar files/OSGi plug-ins to your
development
– Works on J2EE and Domino servers
– And use any of the APIs
 Supports web and stand-alone, Java client
applications
 The Java and JavaScript APIs are consistent

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IBM Social Business SDK - Next!
Language Bindings
Developer Playground
Server Assets
Reusable Dijits
WebSphere Portal
Patterns
Mobile SupportQuick Start Image
SmarterWorkforce

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Agenda
 IBM Social Platform Overview
 ICS Social Application Development Strategy
 Introduction to the Social Business Toolkit SDK
 Conclusion

28. Adding Social Features To Your Application
 Find and customize samples
– Start with samples in Playground
– Edit the samples and test your changes
 Eventually, deploy the pre configured TOMCAT instance
– Unzip the provided zip file on a Windows machine
 Include SDK libraries in your application
– Add jars to web application or deploy SDK feature to Domino
– Include the SDK JavaScript libraries in your application pages
– Configure Endpoints

29. The SDK is a Collaborative, Open, Social Project
 We want your feedback
– Let us know what is good, what is not and what you'd like to see
– Help us building the roadmap
• Tell us about your priorities
 We want your active participation
– Participate to the community
– Report bugs, and eventually solutions
• Grow your reputation on Stackoverflow
– Contribute code to the SDK and code snippets
• Support languages & environments we do not (PHP, .NET...)
 Learn more about social standards
– Don't move – another great session is awaiting you!
2493A Open Standards For Social Business Apps
Dolphin - Oceanic 6 Mon, 3/Jun, 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM

30. OpenNTF Appathon
• IBM Connections App Dev -
Prizes: $5000
• IBM XPages App Dev -
Prizes: $5000
• Anything leveraging
Connections/Smartcloud
(social SDK, OpenSocial,
iWidgets, REST APIs,
customization, WebSphere,
PHP, XPages, etc.) will be
accepted.
http://appathon.openntf.org

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