Wookie
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Thursday 11 November 2010 12:38

I haven't figured this out completely yet, but I
got started on writing an Apache Wookie Connector
Framework in Perl. What it seems to do is get some
widgets from a Wookie widget server and set up the
embedding in an HTML page. This isn't very
interesting until you realise that HTML page could
be the main screen on your phone or the desktop on
your netbook, and the Wookie server some kind of
app store. And the widgets aren't just some piece
of HTML with CSS and JavaScript. The Wookie server
takes care of the same origin policy by providing a
proxy API so the browser does all requests through
the same origin of the Wookie server, and the
Wookie server does the actual requests. But apart
from receiving and sending data from and to other
services via HTTP the Wookie server can also store
data itself. Based on API keys and user IDs widgets
can store data related to a particular widget
belonging to a particular user in a particular
environment on the Wookie server. And because it's
on the same server widgets can also share data
between them, even between different users.
Currently not actually in real time, but widgets
can use the Wookie server to communicate between
them like in a chat widget that sends messages to
the Wookie server and then receives updates from
other widgets in the same chat session. And all
that in an easy HTML + JavaScript environment,
which was originally what I was trying to get in
to.

by Roland van Ipenburg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/work/2010/11/11/wookie/