[VCARDDAV] Bachelor Thesis on a RESTful API for a Groupware/OpenSocial

Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro> Mon, 09 April 2012 10:25 UTC

From: Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>
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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:25:00 +0200
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Subject: [VCARDDAV] Bachelor Thesis on a RESTful API for a Groupware/OpenSocial
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Hi,

please allow me to bring to your attention my just finished bachelor thesis on 
the subject of the design of a restful API to be useful for a Groupware or the 
person related informations of OpenSocial.

I'd appreciate any feedback. The text will be available under a free license 
after I received the mark for it.

Points that might be of special interest for (some of) you:

 - a modernized design of CalAtom/CardAtom[1] without the need for a new 
   "feature" property
 - efficient synchronization of collections with restful HTTP
 - properties of vCard useful (or missing) for OpenSocial
 - use of OpenSearch for reports
 - use of nice small value objects replacing some functionality of Jersey 
   (Java REST framework)
 - a "resource facade" framework to support multiple "views" or media types of 
    the same data 
 - a minimal implementation of an atom pub server on top of Jersey

[1] http://robubu.com/?cat=2

http://github.com/thkoch2001/bachelor-
thesis/blob/master/latex/restful_groupware.pdf

Please be forgiving with the quality of my writing. It's a thesis written 
under time pressure and other constraints and I'm not a writer.

Best regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro

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