Gadgets
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Background
At 2007 September Members Meeting, we decided to investigate possible metadata standards for mashup components, sometimes called "widgets" or "gadgets". We recognized potential overlap with the metadata work coming out of the IDE WG (/member/wiki/IDE) because they are developing metadata standards for UI controls (another possible definition for "widget"). The Gadgets TF is focused on one form of "widgets" that get plugged into a mashup container application at run-time, whereas the IDE WG is focused on potentially a different form of "widgets" that are consumed at design-time by a developer tool.
Working Documents
- IBM Widgets proposal
- Widget System Comparison Table: /member/wiki/Widget_System_Comparison_Table
- Gadget Open Issues
Relationship to other forums
- Need to coordinate with IDE WG (see introductory remarks, above)
- Need to coordinate with WAF WG, which is working on a Widgets 1.0 specification (where the term term "widget" refers to mini-applications that are installed onto the platform and run outside of the browser)
Chair and membership
Stewart Nickolas from IBM will chair this task force. The following list is the current members in this task force:
- Stewart Nickolas <nickolas(at)us.ibm.com> - chair
- Jon Ferraiolo <jferrai(at)us.ibm.com>
- Howard Weingram <weingram(at)tibco.com>
- Bertrand Le Roy <bleroy(at)microsoft.com>
- David Boloker <boloker(at)us.ibm.com>
Task Force's Email list
The email list is gadgets@openajax.org. Archives can be found at: http://openajax.org/pipermail/gadgets/. To subscribe to this list, fill out the form at: http://openajax.org/mailman/listinfo/gadgets.
Task Force Schedule
The schedule, and plan on how to move forward will be discussed in a future conference call among the task force members. Given the nature of this task force, we only expect occasional conference calls. Most of the work will be done via email.
Conference Calls
Next meeting: Monday April 27th, 2009 at 1pm US-PT. Agenda:
- Issue 1: Rename 'default' to 'defaultvalue'?
- Issue 3: 'sharedName' vs 'sharedAs' (was Remove 'topic' attribute from <property> element)
- Issue 5: questions about "topic" sub-elements
- Need to clean up schema and spec relative to PARAMETER, RETURNTYPE and PROPERTY children of TOPIC
- RESOLVED IN EMAIL?
- Howard: http://openajax.org/pipermail/gadgets/2009-April/000175.html
- Jon: http://openajax.org/pipermail/gadgets/2009-April/000186.html
- Howard: http://openajax.org/pipermail/gadgets/2009-April/000187.html
- Issue 6: type checking inbound messages & data being stored
- RESOLVED IN EMAIL?
- Responsibility of widget to verify correctness of incoming messages
- Howard: http://openajax.org/pipermail/gadgets/2009-April/000176.html
- Rich: http://openajax.org/pipermail/gadgets/2009-April/000177.html
- Jon: http://openajax.org/pipermail/gadgets/2009-April/000178.html
- Howard: http://openajax.org/pipermail/gadgets/2009-April/000185.html
- Issue 7: widget onUnload vs onShutdown
- unload and shutdown the same thing?
- Howard: http://openajax.org/pipermail/gadgets/2009-April/000191.html
- Jon: http://openajax.org/pipermail/gadgets/2009-April/000197.html
- Issue 8: sizeChanged event questions
- RESOLVED IN EMAIL? (inner boundaries)
- Howard: http://openajax.org/pipermail/gadgets/2009-April/000192.html
- Jon: http://openajax.org/pipermail/gadgets/2009-April/000198.html
- Issue 9: Does JAVASCRIPT need a mode attribute?
See below for call-in information.
Conference Call PIN and Phone Numbers
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Conference Call Minutes (in reverse chrono order)
- Gadgets_Minutes_2009-04-27
- Gadgets_Minutes_2009-04-20
- Gadgets_Minutes_2009-03-30
- Gadgets_Minutes_2009-03-23
- Gadgets_Minutes_2009-03-16
- Gadgets_Minutes_2009-03-09
- Gadgets_Minutes_2008-6-25
- Gadgets_Minutes_2008-6-18
- Gadgets_Minutes_2008-6-11
- Gadgets_Minutes_2008-5-23
- Gadgets_Minutes_2008-4-25
- Gadgets_Minutes_2008-4-16
- Gadgets_Minutes_2008-4-09
- Gadgets_Minutes_2008-2-27
- Gadgets_Minutes_2008-1-30
- Gadgets_Minutes_2008-01-23 (annotated with various clarifications and in-depth explanations from Howard about some key issues)
- Gadgets_Minutes_2007-12-12
- (minutes not yet posted from phone call on 2007-12-05)
- Gadgets_Minutes_2007-11-16