by Leandro Milmanda Perez > Socialsite, an opensource social network.

Hi!, today I m going to taught you about this new project called Socialsite.

What’s Socialsite ( https://socialsite.dev.java.net/)?

It is an open source software made by sun,  that implements 2 things, an Opensocial (www.opensocial.org) container that render your favorite OS gadgets (Google gadgets too), and also has it own social graph Db and gadgets to manage invitations, relationships, messaging, groups, profiles, like any other social network.

What techs power Social Networks ?

I’ll give you this link, its a pdf with a lot of new techs around social networking.

What am I doing with SS ?

I am doing a few things…

- I am doing implementations of SS for the first time. This software is new, Ive been working with this since very early releases.

- Make it production ready. We are looking forward open these implementations to massive audience (2 to 5 million users around the globe).

- Turn it Jboss ready!. Since this soft came from an open source project from Sun Microsystems, (they did it great!),  it was built using Sun’s Stack (Java, JPA, (Derby, yes Derby … MySql came later), and Glassfish). Since the company I am working for its using Jboss (I am personally a kind of fan of Jboss stack) as it main deployment server, I could not resist to make my own implementation of SS for that platform.

- J2EE deploymet, Ejb3 ready!.

- A lot of new features. I built a few new features like notifications i18n, job manager, support for images (previously stored on BLOBs), Notification services, Gmail integration services, etc. Also we (the team) cleaned all the reported bugs (and new ones ).

- Cluster ready!. I made also a few tunnings and scripts that allow you to run SS in HA clusters, and setted up distribued caches, farming services, nodes, etc.

- Oracle 10g ready!.

- We also did a lot of stuff just for this impl, but those details I cannot tell. ( may be in a later post

I will continue posting some news about this project and related, …to keep in touch, any comments, below.

Cheers!

Lemil.-