IBM Innovate 2013 Social Applications Made Easy with the NewSocial Business Toolkit SDK

Philippe Riand – Ryan BaxterICS Development Labspriand@us.ibm.com, rjbaxter@us.ibm.com2133

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Agenda

IBM Social Platform Overview

ICS Social Application Development Strategy

Introduction to the Social Business Toolkit SDK

Conclusion

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.

The IBM Platform for Social BusinessEnabling “systems of engagement” solutions

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

Unified APIs for the IBM Social Business Toolkit

New APIs and services designed to help developers build

unified user experiencesand

consistent extensibilityindependent 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

ApplicationDevelopment

The Six Legs of the Application Development Strategy

Reach the broaderset of developers

EmbraceOpen Standards

Nurture and entertain acommunity of developers

Make the platformAccessibleQuickStart image

Enable the community

Make it easy toconsume the platformSDK

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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)

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 productsall 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

Nurture and Enable the Community of Developers

#ibmsbt

/OpenNTF/SocialSDK

http://ibmsbt.openntf.org/

http://bit.ly/ibmsbtcommunityhttp://bit.ly/VyedABProduct documentation in wikis

Developer Workshops

TwitterFacebookLinkedIn

StackOverflow

GitHub

http://bit.ly/sbtplayground

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

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

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

DocumentationServer AssetsJ2EE/Domino

Pre-configured Tomcat

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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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 maximumperformance and modularity

The JavaScript contains many easyto use functions

Uses existing libraries (Dojo, JQuery...) underthe cover, but exposes a library agnostic API

Comprehensible, customizable Dijits

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 BindingsDeveloper Playground

Server Assets

Reusable DijitsWebSphere 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

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

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

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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