We've created a new page on developerWorks that describes the technical capabilities how to do application development for IBM SmartCloud for Social Business, it provides links to more detailed documentation and it explains how to get started.

http://developer.ibm.com/social/cloud

Understand the App Dev Capabilities
Add Social Capabilities to your Apps
Manage SmartCloud for Social Business Services
Extend SmartCloud for Social Business
Get Started
Try the Playground and API Explorer
Download the Social Business Toolkit SDK
Leverage Development Environments
Understand Authentication

The video outlines how to set up the Eclipse IDE and configure a simple hello world sample to work against IBM SmartCloud for Social Business.



Below are some links and snippets you need for the setup.

Setup Hello World Sample against IBM Connections (on-prem) on IBM Greenhouse

IBM SmartCloud Engage for 60 Days Trial

IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Admin UI

Callback OAuth 2 URL

Replace in sbt.properties:
smartcloudOA2.url=http://apps.na.collabservtest.lotus.com
smartcloudOA2.appName=connections
smartcloudOA2.appId=connections
smartcloudOA2.clientID=
smartcloudOA2.clientSecret=
smartcloudOA2.apiVersion=3.0

Replace in managed-beans.xml:
managed-bean
managed-bean-name defaultEnvironment  managed-bean-name
managed-bean-class com.ibm.sbt.jslibrary.SBTEnvironment  managed-bean-class
managed-bean-scope application  managed-bean-scope
managed-property
property-name endpoints  property-name
value smartcloudOA2:connections value
managed-property
managed-bean

Un-comment in server.xml:
Connector port="8443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol" maxThreads="150" SSLEnabled="true" scheme="https" secure="true" clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"

Create Tomcat keystore file

Launch sample

This week I attended Entwicklercamp in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. As always Rudi Knegt did an excellent job organizing the event - great speakers and sessions, good opportunities to network and a lot of fun.

I did two extended versions of my IBM Connect sessions (OpenNTF and Connections App Dev). I liked especially that there was a lot of interest in the Connections app dev session.

Yesterday I presented in the closing session 20 frequently asked questions and answers about the strategy of IBM Collaboration Solutions app dev. Below are the slides.