[Building Sakai] OAuth in sakai 2.8, 2.9 etc...

[Matthew Jones]

OAuth already exists and is used in Sakai both at some schools for mobile
and others as part of BasicLTI,  that's not a problem at all.

The question is more what are the use cases for a learning management
system with external integrations? Which ones are worthwhile, and who is
going to do them. ;) As the new facebook timeline shows, there's a whole
TON of apps out available for possible integration out there now. ;)
https://www.facebook.com/about/timeline/apps

Essentially the sky is the limit when you're talking about that. All of
those services you mentioned and more have full apis and could be
integrated into Sakai to display any data from that service you'd want.
Some of them (like Facebook/Google+/Twitter) let you write apps right in
the system that can consume data straight from your LMS.

It's all a pretty significant effort writing and supporting future changes
to these apis though but it could be useful if it's something that's really
desired by your users.

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:46 PM, George Pipkin <gpp8p at virginia.edu> wrote:

> Hi -
>
>    I am involved in a planning effort that is trying to understand how we
> will link our sakai-based LMS to external applications such as
> confluence, wordpress,
> Google-based applications, Twitter, Facebook etc.  I see a good deal of
> discussion
> of OAuth for Sakai - mostly among the people working on Sakai3.  There's
> even a
> Jira out there to do it (KERN-807).  I understand from a comment made by
> Ian Boston
> that this will probably be based on Apache Amber.  My question concerns
> whether
> a similar facility is in the works for Sakai 2.8 and 2.9?  It will be
> some time before
> my institutions starts using Sakai3, but we will certainly be upgrading
> to 2.8 this
> Spring and probably 2.9 next Spring.  What OAuth facilities will be
> available to us ?
>
>                                         - George Pipkin
>                                             U.Va.
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