Spring Social 1.0: What a Year Makes
Show of hands: Who’s on Facebook? Any Twitter users reading this? Almost everyone I know is on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or some other social network site. In fact, most people I know maintain a presence on multiple social network sites. According to recent numbers thrown about, Facebook has over 750 million users and Twitter has Read more…
Extending Spring Social's Service Provider Framework
Last week, I introduced you to Spring Social's Service Provider "Connect" Framework and showed you how it simplifies creating connections between a user's local application account and their accounts on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers. Today I want to show you how to extend the service provider framework to handle connections to providers that aren't directly supported Read more…
Introducing Spring Social's Service Provider Framework
In my previous post, I introduced you to Spring Social's Java bindings to popular Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) APIs such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and TripIt. In addition to providing simple, strongly-typed Java methods for common API operations, these bindings ensure each HTTP request includes the credentials required to authorize your application to invoke the API on Read more…
Socializing Spring Applications
Increasingly, web surfers are using the internet to connect with friends, family, and colleagues using social networking sites. Conversations that once took place over email are now taking place in short messages written on someone's Facebook wall or in a brief tweet on Twitter. Connections once made with a handshake are now created using LinkedIn. Read more…
