4 Nov 2008 mindcrime   » (Master)

Finally back to work on OpenQabal

So after a rather long hiatus - due mainly to a political campaign - we're finally getting back to work on OpenQabal here. Of course our old road-map is now shot to heck, so it's going to take a while to sit down and put together a new plan and get some momentum going again. But I can say that a lot of work has been done the past week. Some of the needed work done includes: swapping all of the EJB2 SLSBs that were in place for remoting with EJB3 SLSB's instead, plugging in some of the JMS event messaging code that had been planned (and prototyped like 2 years ago!), renaming some modules, some serious refactoring in the IdentityEngine project, and - last but not least - getting the CruiseControl build-loop all sorted out so that everything builds continuously again.

So what's next in the short-term? Some or all of the following:

  • update CAS to the latest release
  • major improvements to the IdentityManager module
  • OpenID login support
  • support for provisioning users who are logging in using OpenID (or other 3rd party authentication services)

Getting those things knocked out will represent major progress. After that, it'll be time to start on the GraphEngine, PolicyEngine and ProfileEngine stuff for managing the social-graph, profiles and privacy / access control issues. After that, hopefully we can finally get started on the federated social-graph using FOAF... and after that, start on the SIOC stuff for distributed conversations. Oh and something needs to be done with the user-dashboard module to support plugging in applications. That may turn out to be using Portlets, or possibly the Google Gadgets / OpenSocial stuff.

After that... well, let's not look quite *that* far ahead just yet.

Syndicated 2008-11-04 04:22:17 (Updated 2008-11-04 04:26:52) from openqabal

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