EWF/Projects.md

This page lists potential projects on EWF, this is open for contribution, and if you are a student, don't hesitate to pick on, you will get close support from EWF's team.

Evaluate EWF according to the following constraints ...

• Suggested by Javier
• See http://www.amundsen.com/blog/archives/1130
• Other option is take the following REST implementation toolkit as a guide to evaluate EWF http://code.google.com/p/implementing-rest/wiki/RESTImplementationToolkit.

Libraries: Reusable Client Design based on J.Moore Presentation

• Suggested by Javier
• http://s3.amazonaws.com/cimlabs/Oredev-Hypermedia-APIs.pdf
• video http://vimeo.com/20781278

Hypermedia API library to work with XHTML

• Suggested by Javier
• http://codeartisan.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/using-html-as-media-type-for-your-api.html

HAL browser

• Suggested by Javier
• written in Eiffel inspired by http://haltalk.herokuapp.com/explorer/hal_browser.html#/
• see http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html

Collection-JSON browser

• Suggested by Javier
• similar to HAL browser but focused on Collection JSON
• see http://www.amundsen.com/media-types/collection/

Build a video to demonstrate how an Hypermedia API works, and how to build it using EWF

• Suggested by Javier
• (maybe based on our graphviz example) or and extension to RestBucksCRUD

Create a Client Cache based on Apache commons Client Cache.

• Suggested by Javier
• http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/httpclient-cache/index.html
• http://labs.xfinity.com/benchmarking-the-httpclient-caching-module

Security: provide popular authentication mecanisms

• Suggested by Jocelyn
• OAuth: consumer and provider
• OpenID
• Google Connect
• Facebook Connect
• ...

Build clients to consume popular RESTful APIs

• Suggested by Jocelyn & Javier
• Requirement: OAuth client eiffel component
• Google Discovery APIs
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Github
• Flickr
• ... etc

New EWF connectors

• Suggested by Jocelyn & Javier
• LightHTTP connector for EWF
• nginx connector for EWF
• ...

Design and build something like Ruby on Rails or Grails

• Suggested by Javier
• i.e a conventional MVC to create Web Sites
• Could be useful even if this is not the taste of everyone

Road to Hypermedia API

• Suggested by Javier
• describe differents types of Web API, and how you can build them using EWF.
• Describing Pros and Cons.
• based on http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.html

Design a state machine to serve response

• Suggested by Jocelyn
• example: multipage web form

library: Template engine

• Suggested by Jocelyn
• Get inspired by any existing template engine, and build one for Eiffel
  • http://www.smarty.net/
  • http://mustache.github.com/
  • ...
• This is not specific to EWF, but it will be very useful in website context

library: Wikitext, markdown parser and renderer

• Suggested by Jocelyn
• Support reading of wikitext, and markdown, and provide HTML rendering
• extension: render wikitext and markdown into Vision2 widget (not related to EWF, but could be useful to build editor)

library: Web component to build HTML5 widget

• Suggested by Jocelyn
• Build set of Eiffel component to ease development of websites
  • table widget (with sorting ...)
  • suggestive typing widget
  • tab ...
  • WYSIWYG textarea widget (could reuse existing JS solution ...)
  • ...

Eiffel Web Nino

• Suggested by Jocelyn
• Complete implementation of Eiffel Web Nino using pool of threads
• Complete migration of Eiffel Web Nino to SCOOP
• Implement persistent connection
• Improve Nino to become a real solution to host any web services/sites
• ...

Concurrenty and EWF

• Suggested by Jocelyn
• Make sure EWF is compliant with concurrency, provide example

Build a simple CMS with EWF

• Suggested by Jocelyn
• Build a simple CMS website with EWF
• features:
  • user management (register, login, lost password -> send email)
  • page editing
  • blog
  • template / theme
  • persistency / storage / ...
  • extension at compilation time