Development
++ MySocials project can be represented as a layered architecture model. This model allows to scale the environment depending on aims and used services. +
++ Model of the architecture is shown at the following picture. +
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+ Network layer includes used social services and environment for data transmission. The architecture model contains social networks (e.g. VKontakte, Facebook and Flickr). Every service has its own data transmission protocol. MySocials group supports protocols based on XML and JSON formats. +
++ Transport layer is a set of libraries for access to social networks (drivers). The main goal of each driver is to perform requests to the service for getting or sending data. One request to the driver can be implemented as a sequence of requests to the service. +
++ Middleware layer provides common programming interface (MySocials API) for access to different social services. MySocials API is based on XML format. Core is a special Qt library for developing applications which work with different social services. It includes a set of base classes, tools for caching data for autonomous work of application and compound requests. Unification of all base functions in the core makes implementation of different MySocials services easier and helps to avoid equal parts of code. +
++ User layer includes various plug-ins and services which were implemented during the work on MySocials project. +
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- Plug-ins for Qt Messaging Framework (QMF plug-ins) provide access to social network in the same way as access to e-mail services. +
- Application plug-ins implement work with social networks in different applications. There are plug-in for Telepathy framework and plug-in for import contacts into Maemo address book. +
- Console application for testing allows to check the work of MySocials drivers and perform requests based on MySocials API. +
- Application for browsing images from social networks (Gallery). +
- Application for working with different social networks (MySocials). +
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MySocials is free open source software. MySocials is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL license.
- +e-mail list: maemo-mysocials@cs.karelia.ru
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