Web Services Working Group

The Web Services Working Group is a Production Working Group.

Coordinators & PLT Contact

• The coordinator for this working group is Ashwin Date (mailto:coolbung@gmail.com).
• The PLT Contact for this working group is Chris Davenport (mailto:chris.davenport@joomla.org).

Announcements

• Web Services Working Group update 4 June 2012

External resources

• Recommended reading: Web API Design by Brian Mulloy, Apigee (NOTE: Registration required)
• Stefan Neculai is a GSoC student working on a Web service API. Read about him in the Joomla Magazine.
• Aaron Schmitz has done some work on an OAuth 2.0 library
• Louis Landry has created an OAuth connector. Also take a look at Louis's new router proposal.
• [REST API by Techjoomla for Joomla Separate app approach Presentation | http://www.slideshare.net/coolbung/joomla-rest-api]
• [REST API by Techjoomla for Joomla Separate app approach Github | https://github.com/techjoomla/Joomla-REST-API]
• [com_api approach | https://github.com/techjoomla/com_api]
• [com_api Plugins | https://github.com/techjoomla/com_api-plugins]
• Note on current architecture used in Joomla 2.5
• Herman Peeren's presentation at J and Beyond 2010
• API Craft mailing list.

Deliverables

Create a POC using com_users by using the extending it to add webservices to Adding, Editing users, Listing users. Added by Parth Lawate as per webservices group discussion at #JWC12

Communications

Primary communications channel is the Joomla CMS Development mailing list. If the volume of traffic becomes such that it might be deemed to be a nuisance by those not interested in web services, then we will most likely start a separate mailing list.

Meetings

• 19 May 2012: Meeting at J and Beyond 2012, Germany
• 17 November 2012: Meeting at Joomla World Conference, San Jose, California