Facebook Portlet

Name	Facebook Portlet
Authors	Matt Young, Ren Provey, Gary Weaver, Jen Bourey
Issue Management	http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/FACEPT
Source	https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/sandbox/FacebookPortlet
Price	Free
License	Freeware / Open Source (BSD)

This portlet is in-development with only periodic resources available for development and support. We welcome contributions. If you'd like to contribute please email the portlet-dev list.

About this JA-SIG Portlet Project

Originally written in 2007 by Matt Young and Ren Provey of Duke University and presented in the 2007 JA-SIG conference. Updated by Gary Weaver in 2011 to use the latest Facebook Javascript API.

Requirements for Usage

While some modification of this portlet may in use at one or more institutions running an earlier version of uPortal, it may require significant additional work in coding/configuration to be functional.

Features

Lets you login/logout of Facebook with a button
Show number of user's friend notifications and requests
Displays last 5 messages in user's news feed (note: may not be the same messages that the user would see in their Facebook news page)
Allows user to post status to Facebook

Usage Documentation

FacebookPortlet User Manual

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Objectives and requirements

Functional

Can retrieve facebook information and display information in a user friendly format

Technical

Needs review: Is it a standards-compliant JSR-168 portlet? - Not completely, due to Facebook Javascript SDK requirement to have a div with the id "fb-root".
Needs review: Does it have what JA-SIG would consider to be modular design and APIs?
Needs review: Uses Spring PortletMVC and appropriate Spring practices - think so
Builds with Maven
Tests: Since primarily javascript, not much benefit in unit testing

Cultural

A collaborative open source project under the auspices of JA-SIG
Can be used commercially and non-commercially
Produces actual production-ready releases, not just a code drop or a project that exclusively lives in SVN (Note: for now we would appreciate some help in this, and Jen of Yale offered to help until Duke has time to help develop it)

Participants

~gary.weaver@duke.edu
~bourey
(feel free to add yourself here if you'd like to participate!)
...

Committers

Committership is a social contract

Commitership in JA-SIG SVN is both a technical fact (having the right account set up in JA-SIG SVN configuration) and a social contract (the understanding and agreement among developers that this person will be committing to some particular portion of JA-SIG shared collaborated-upon source code.) Presently, technically, any member of the "everyone" group is able to commit changes to this portlet project in SVN. That doesn't mean everyone "is a committer" in the sense of committership on this project. Cf., technically, any member of the "everyone" group in JA-SIG SVN is able to commit changes to uPortal, but it would be a surprise and likely inappropriate for an "everyone" member who has never before committed to the uPortal project to make unexpected changes.

Here are enumerated the people believed to be committers for this project:

~gary.weaver@duke.edu
~bourey
(feel free to add yourself here if you'd like to contribute!)

Open Issues

type	key	summary	reporter	status
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Action Items

Action Item	Assignee	Status
Give garysweaver svn commit access	~awp9	Done
Create a sandbox SVN module https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/sandbox/FacebookPortlet	~gary.weaver@duke.edu	Done
Document intent to move to SVN portlets/ directory as of first RC	~gary.weaver@duke.edu	Ok with me to move to incubation if accepted
Create child pages of Portlets wiki space for this portlet content	~gary.weaver@duke.edu	Done
Build out this page with more info	~gary.weaver@duke.edu	Done
Document this projectlet on the JA-SIG Clearinghouse Contributions page	~gary.weaver@duke.edu	Is this still applicable?
Create a Jira project in the portlets group	~gary.weaver@duke.edu	Done
Does this need its own dev and user mailing lists?	~gary.weaver@duke.edu	No, can use existing portlet-dev, portlet-user, uportal-user lists