Project Zero Blog

[ February 26, 2010; 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] Announcing a new IBM Innovation Center event at the San Mateo California site, Introduction to IBM software on Amazon Web Services featuring WebSphere sMash & DB2

Cloud computing provides a way to develop applications in a virtual environment, where computing capacity, bandwidth, storage, security and reliability are not issues—you do not need to install the software [...]

A while back I wrote a tutorial that shows how to leverage sMash’s REST to SOAP extension. The tutorial shows how, with this extension, you can integrate legacy web service applications (in this case deployed on the WebSphere Application Server) into your sMash application via a RESTful facade.
If you do take a look, there’s one [...]

[ February 10, 2010 8:00 am to February 12, 2010 4:00 pm. ]
Dojo Connect is a conference for Dojo web developers provided exclusively through your web browser, no travel required. It is a 3 day event during the 2nd week of February featuring many speakers who are active developers of the Dojo Toolkit from IBM, Google, Sitepen, Mozilla and Uxebu. The price is $300 which includes [...]

This is a very simple example of using the restToSoap extension of the WebSphere sMash Connection API with a php-based client app to invoke a remote web service.  We have not implemented any of the PHP SOAP libraries yet for WebSphere sMash, but this example shows the relative ease in which a PHP script can [...]

We have added support for the main APC extensions into sMash in the latest driver. These are good for caching data (oddly enough) which can be seen by all requests running in a single engine. We are using an internal storage format which for multiple reader situations is faster than deserialization. Some applications like SugarCRM [...]

We are pleased to announce that Monza (the latest sMash development driver) will now install and run the open source course management system (CMS) Moodle. You can find installation instructions on our Development Wiki. This adds to the growing list of popular PHP applications that we support (you can find a list of supported [...]

[ January 26, 2010; 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. ] There is an exclusive one day workshop taking place on January 26th at the IBM Innovation Center at Hursley in thhe UK. This workshop will be delivered by members of the sMash development team.

From the abstract:

This workshop will explore IBM WebSphere sMash with discussions that include Representational State Transfer (REST), an architectural style [...]

The World Community Grid enables individuals to donate the idle or spare power of their computers to groundbreaking environmental and medical research. World Community Grid have just announced a new Facebook application which is built on WebSphere sMash and is available to over 400,000 World Community Grid users.
The World Community Grid Facebook application was developed [...]

We recently upgraded the forum software, which gave us an updated feed capability and a new set of feed URLs.   The new feed URLs for our ProjectZero forums areas are as follows…
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We are pleased to announce that Monza (the latest sMash development driver) now has support for the open source Wiki/CMS/Groupware TikiWiki. You can find installation instructions on our Development Wiki. This adds to the growing list of popular PHP applications that we support (you can find a list of supported PHP applications here ). [...]