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Social Space in Sun GlassFish Web Space Server 10.0(Project Websynergy)

In the web2.0 era, social networking is the most needed feature of any portal. In this blog I will navigate through the Social Space sample, which demonstrates the Social Networking use cases solved using Sun GlassFish Web Space Server ( hence forth referred as web space).

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Now as the portal is up and running, let us explore the social space sample.

• Click Base Sample Users > Social Networking Sample Users

• Express login as one of the users For eg:Mary

• Hover over Welcome Mary drop down

• Click My Places > My Community > Public Pages.

  

This would direct you to Mary's public pages, which has the following pages. Public pages of a user can be viewed by anyone even with out authentication. These public pages have applications, which have public data about the user.

My Profile

• User Profile(Profile Portlet) :- This Application displays the details of the user.

• Recent Activities :- This shows the recent activities related to user as user being added as a friend by some other user, other user writing on user's scrapbook etc

• Friend Application :- This application lists all the friends of the user.

• Calendar Application :- This application displays the usual calender and different events scheduled by user.

Scrapbook

• Wall :- This Application is used to write scraps to the user.

Photos

• Image Gallery :

  • View the photos uploaded in the albums

  • View the various albums created by the user.

• Similarly Click My Places > My Community > Private Pages (Only the user can access his private page)

  

  Private pages include the following features:

My Profile

• View user's own profile. (Provided using "Profile" portlet)

• View the activities done on user's publicly available content. (Provided using "Activities" portlet)

• View user's friends list (Provided using "Friends" portlet )

• Chat with user's friends who are online (Provided using "Chat" portlet)

• View what user's friends are up to, in their recent activities. (Provided using "Friends Activities" portlet)

  Scraps

• View user's scrapbook.

• Delete the scraps that user don't feel like leaving for public viewing. (Both provided using "Wall" portlet)

  Friends

• View any pending friend requests for user.

• Accept / Reject the friend request (Both provided by "Requests" portlet)

• View user's friends' activities. (Provided by "Friends Activities" portlet)

• Search for other users and invite them to be user's friends. (Provided using "Search and Invite Friends" portlet.)

• See the list of user's friends and chat with those who are online. (Provided using "Friends" portlet)

  Communities

• Search for the Communities user owns.

• Search for the Communities user have joined (includes the ones that user owns).

• Search for available Communities.

• Join a community if it is open or post a request to join a restricted community.

• Leave a community that user have already joined.

• Change the status of a community user owns to active or inactive.

• Invite members to join a community user owns (Everything provided by "My Communities" portlet)

  Will be back with detailed description of each of the feature:)
  

Apart other features like Chat, Presence, forums etc are available as default with the portal.

Posted at 10:15PM Feb 17, 2009 by Sameera Subrayamanja in Sun  |  Comments[2]