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A few things come to mind immediately. For example:
- Using IdAS, you could potentially have your users exist in the webservice's default identity store, or in other places (like ldap directories, linkedIn, livejournal, etc.). If you did this, it would be like an uber-social network.
- You could use the notion of Contexts as a way of catagorizing contacts, or you could use some kind of tag on each user (more likely on the link which points at the user).
- No one has built connectors yet such that different identity readers (address books, IM lists, etc.) can all read the same identity store. It'd be cool if they were able to use IdAS as their interface.
Jim
>>> Fabian Weisensee <fabian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3/19/07 10:41 AM >>> Hello there I read most of the wiki, but it's still not clear to me what could be done with Higgins. I want to accomplish the following for my diplom thesis: A webservice with which the user can manage his contacts. You have to register for the service. You got your own profile, just like in a social network, with all thinkable (extendable perhaps) attributes, which the user can fill out at own will. But the important thing is, that you can add your contacts, and if they are also registered, you automatically see the whole profile. You can categorize your contacts in groups like family, work, friends etc. Additionally we need to have fine-grained privacy control. The interface shall be documented at detail, so that this service could be integrated in other programs, like Outlook/Thunderbird, ICQ/AIM/MSN, Skype etc. So the user would always have an up-to-date contactlist, synchronized over all his programs and all his PCs. So my question is: How could Higgins help me to implement this infrastructure? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Fabian Weisensee PS: Hope my english is ok, as i'm not native english speaking. _______________________________________________ higgins-dev mailing list higgins-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/higgins-dev |