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Welcome to Apache Rave!
Apache Rave a new web and social mashup engine that aggregates and serves web widgets. Rave is targeted as engine for internet and intranet portals and
integrates Apache Shindig & Apache Wookie to provide OpenSocial & W3C widget support, respectively...
Apache Rave team is proud to announce the release of
Apache Rave
Status of Apache Rave
Apache Rave brings together and combines several pre-existing projects and teams
working towards more or less the same or overlapping goals. Each of these projects
is already in production, but Rave is a brand new start. We are bringing together
the best from each of the original projects in a brand new code base.
The goal for Apache Rave is to become a lightweight and open-standards based extendible
platform for using, integrating and hosting OpenSocial and W3C Widget related
features, technologies and services. It will also provide strong context-aware
personalization, collaboration and content integration capabilities and a high
quality out-of-the-box installation as well as be easy to integrate in other
platforms and solutions.
The intended features include:
Core Features
Advanced OpenSocial compliance and optional features support
Native W3C Widgets support through
Apache Wookie
OpenSocial persistence and SPI (Service Provider Interface) implementation
Self-service application administration including security, gadget management and page templates
User and group management with full privacy model
Gadget repository with life-cycle management (install/update/remove) and extended meta data (categories, comments, ratings, etc.)
Dynamic and highly customizable front-end engine (skins, pages, tabs, layouts, navigation)
Full OAuth support
Support for security restrictions on both Gadgets and page/tag/layout customizations
Set of common and general purpose Gadgets to be usable out-of-the-box
Support for inter-gadget messaging with examples
Extensible Features
Pluggable persistence
Pluggable security model with example modules for authentication and authorization
Support for OpenSocial extensions not (yet) defined in the specification
Support for other (non-standard, yet) pluggable container services and extensions
Beyond these initial features the vision and scope for Apache Rave goes much further and
includes integrating and providing other highly desired/needed features like:
pluggable and extendible content integration and management services
space extensions and management features, like
context aware features and extensions integration for personalized and social network and (mobile) device oriented sites and channels
enhanced client-side widget messaging, coordination and co-location support like using
OpenAjax
Hub and Registry
space, page and Gadget based linking, navigation, coordination and collaboration
inline widget rendering, like
Activity Streams
support
integration with other social networks like with
W3C Federated Social Web Incubator Group
OneSocialWeb
and
OStatus
integration with
Apache Wave
runtime services monitoring, reporting and configuration/life-cycle management support