A panel discussion about Plone web services that took place at the 2009 Plone Conference in Budapest. Participants were: Sally Kleinfeldt, Matt Wilkes, Matt Hamilton, Alec Mitchell, and Calvin Hendryx-Parker. A video of the panel may be viewed at http://blip.tv/file/3018226.

1. Plone Web Services:
Panel Discussion
2009 Plone Conference, Budapest
Thursday, October 29, 2009

2. A Brief Introduction
Sally Kleinfeldt, Jazkarta
Thursday, October 29, 2009

3. Why?
Thursday, October 29, 2009

4. www.housingmaps.com
Thursday, October 29, 2009

5. Twitter Clients
Thursday, October 29, 2009

6. What?
Thursday, October 29, 2009

7. XML-RPC
• Remote Procedure Call
• XML format message
• HTTP transport
Thursday, October 29, 2009

8. XML-RPC
Thursday, October 29, 2009

9. JSON-RPC
• Remote Procedure Call
• JSON format message (JavaScript Object
Notation)
Thursday, October 29, 2009

10. JSON-RPC
Thursday, October 29, 2009

11. SOAP
• Simple Object Access Protocol
• Successor to XML-RPC
Thursday, October 29, 2009

12. SOAP
Thursday, October 29, 2009

13. REST
• REpresentational State Transfer
• Architectural style
• Resource oriented
Thursday, October 29, 2009

14. REST
Thursday, October 29, 2009

15. AtomPub
• Atom Publishing Protocol
• HTTP-based protocol for creating and
updating web resources
Thursday, October 29, 2009

16. AtomPub
Thursday, October 29, 2009

17. Atom
• Atom Syndication Format
• XML language for web feeds
Thursday, October 29, 2009

18. Atom
Thursday, October 29, 2009

19. Microformats
• Semantic markup
• Reuse existing XHTML tags
Thursday, October 29, 2009

20. Microformats
Thursday, October 29, 2009

21. Products
• SOAP: CIGNEX project
• REST: ATRest, gsxml
• Atom:Vice
• XML-RPC: wsapi4plone
Thursday, October 29, 2009

22. wsapi4plone
• Michael Mulich and Kevin Kalupson,
Weblion
• Take advantage of Zope XML-RPC support
• Provide CRUD interface to Plone content
objects
• Future: also provide JSON-RPC
Thursday, October 29, 2009

23. AtomPub for Plone
Matt Wilkes
Thursday, October 29, 2009

24. Limitations of Zope 2
• Publisher only does HTTP GET and POST
Thursday, October 29, 2009

25. WSGI Middleware
Thursday, October 29, 2009

26. CMIS
Matt Hamilton, Netsight
Thursday, October 29, 2009

27. Content Management
Interoperability Services
• Web services standard for content
management
• Proposed by IBM, Microsoft, ECM,
Alfresco...
• Approved for submission to OASIS public
review process
Thursday, October 29, 2009

28. CMS Switch
• Is your current CMS a bummer?
• CMIS could make it easy to switch
• Alfresco has CMIS integrations with
Drupal, Joomla, eZ Publish, and Confluence
Thursday, October 29, 2009

29. CMS Switch
Thursday, October 29, 2009

30. CMIS and Plone
• Participate in public review process?
• Create CMIS implementation?
• Plone Foundation support?
Thursday, October 29, 2009

31. True Confessions
Alec Mitchell
Thursday, October 29, 2009

32. Experiences
• XML
• JSON
• High performance web services
• Integration of 3rd party web services in
Plone (SOAP, XML-RPC, REST, JSON)
Thursday, October 29, 2009

33. More True Confessions
Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up
Thursday, October 29, 2009

34. Experiences
• XML-RPC
• RDF/XML
• JSON and SimpleJSON
• jQuery
Thursday, October 29, 2009

35. Discussion
Thursday, October 29, 2009