IBM Social Business Toolkit webinar 03/26/14: What’s new in the IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK The IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK has evolved rapidly over the last year. In this session you will learn about the new features that are available in the latest release and how to take advantage of this features to rapidly add social features to your existing applications. There have been a number of successful projects build using the SDK during the last year. We will describe how these projects were implemented and present some design patterns and best practices that have been identified. Finally we will look to the future of the SDK and what is being planned and worked on for upcoming releases. Speaker: Mark Wallace, @mewallace IBM, Social Business Toolkit Architect https://developer.ibm.com/social

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What’s new in the
IBM Social Business Toolkit SDK
Mark Wallace, Technical Lead Social Business Toolkit SDK
IBM SBT Webinar 26/3/2014

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About Me
Based Ireland Lab, Dublin
Working on Social Business Toolkit SDK with
team of developers in Ireland and India Labs
Email: mark_wallace@ie.ibm.com
Twitter: mewallace
LinkedIn: http://ie.linkedin.com/in/markewallace/
Previously worked
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Sametime Unified Telephony
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XSP Runtime
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IBM Data Access
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Translation Services for Sametime

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Social Business Toolkit SDK
What's New?
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Exploring the SDK API's
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API Explorer
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Discoverability
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Reusable UI Controls
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Setting up your Development Environment
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Mobile API
What's Happening Now?
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BSS API
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PHP Support
How to Get Involved?
← Demonstrations

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Exploring the SDK API's – Try It with Playground
1. API Explorer
2. XPages
3. OpenSocial Gadgets
4. Java
5. JavaScript

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Exploring the SDK API's – Try It with Playground
1. Samples Navigator
2. Sample Code
3. Sample Support Files
4. Sample Preview
5. API Documentation

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Setting up your Development Environment
Eclipse IDE for J2EE + Java Runtime Environment
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Recommend Eclipse Kepler
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Java → Compiler → JDK Compliance Level: 1.6
Configure Tomcat
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Recommend Apache Tomcat 7.0
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https://www.eclipse.org/webtools/community/education/web/t320/Configuring_a
n_Application_Server_in_Eclipse.pdf
Import Required Projects
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Import → Team Project Set
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URL: https://raw.github.com/OpenNTF/SocialSDK/master/team/mysocial-
projectset.psf
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Add com.ibm.sbt.web and mysocial.webapp projects to Tomcat

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Setting up your Development Environment
Configure SDK
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Edit: <workspace>ServersTomcat v7.0 Server at localhost-configcontext.xml
<!-- Configures the location of a sbt.properties file which contains the configuration
properties for use with the Social Business Toolkit -->
<Resource name="url/ibmsbt-sbtproperties" auth="Container" type="java.net.URL"
factory="com.ibm.commons.runtime.naming.UrlFactory" url="sbt.properties" />
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Create: <workspace>ServersTomcat v7.0 Server at localhost-configsbt.properties
connectionsBasic.url=https://greenhouse.lotus.com

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Setting up your Development Environment

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Mobile API
iOS API
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Communities, Profiles, ActivityStreams
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Basic and OAuth Support
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Sample Application
Demonstration

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What's Happening Now
PHP Support
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Word Press
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Moodle
Business Support System
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Migrate to new API Explorer
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New Java API and Samples
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Change password
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Add subscriber
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Entitle to subscriptions

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How To Get Involved
Explore here: https://greenhouse.lotus.com/sbt/SBTPlayground.nsf
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JavaScript, Java, OpenSocial, XPages, Connections API
Source here: https://github.com/OpenNTF/SocialSDK
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Watch, Pull Requests, Wiki, Issues
Community here: https://www.ibmdw.net/social/
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Articles, Events, Twitter, YouTube

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