Re: [xdi] Introducing XDI² (XDI-Squared)

[Michael Schwartz <mike@gluu.org>]

This is awesome!  Nicely done Markus!


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Michael Schwartz
Gluu
Founder / CEO
mike@gluu.org
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On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Markus Sabadello wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here's the fresh XDI codebase I mentioned a few times..
> I've been working on this for a while and now packaged it up:
>
> http://xdi2.projectdanube.org/ (main page and sample deployment)
> https://github.com/peacekeeper/xdi2 (code and wiki)
>
> So far it has the following:
> - Basic implementation of the XDI graph model
> - In-memory store, text file based store, and Berkeley DB based store
> - XDI client and server
> - (De-)Serialization in two formats: XDI/JSON,  and plain list of XDI
> statements
> - Some of the good old tools are also back, e.g. XDI Converter, XDI
> Messenger
>
> It should be very easy to download and run (just do "mvn clean install").
> It has no complicated dependencies and is designed to be general-purpose
> and modular, to support a wide range of use cases.
>
> It's called XDI², because the idea is to have code both for traditional
> client/server communication, and to also include some of the peer-to-peer
> functionality I have been working on for a while.
> E.g. you could deploy it on Freedom Boxes and have them communicate with
> each other via serverless XDI.
> But this needs some more work and cleaning up..
>
> It would be great to work on this some more (and to migrate Project Danube
> from XDI4j to XDI²), but this depends a little bit on time, on the
> stability of the specs, and on whether there is even need for another
> library (considering there is already OpenXDI)... It'd be great to get some
> advice on this.
>
> Markus