This is a full overview of the Ringside Social Application Server architecture. This part of the documentation details how we got to our architecture and thoughts about integration with Facebook and other platforms.
Learn how applications are integrated into the platform. We detail all the mechanics of the protocols used between networks and our social tier as well as applications and our api container.
As an open source project our planning is open and you can continue to watch how and what we do. Check out the roadmap and see links to our feature/bug tracking system.
Our ongoing design documentation is available to see progress on a given subject. Feel free to comment and get involved with the design of a component.
Learn how we manage identity mapping between host and provider networks.
Learn how to use the payment services available through the Ringside platform.
Learn what tags we offer, which of the Facebook FBML tags we support and plan to support.
Learn what APIs we offer, which of the Facebook API tags we support and plan to support.
We are building out social query language support first by working towards support of Facebook FQL. Release 1 supports some of the tables and we working towards full support in release 2.
Learn about our support for FBJS.
Learn how to extend the data model and create new domain objects.
Learn about the build system and the different build scripts used by Ringside.
Learn about the testing infrastructure, how to add new tests and how to run existing tests.
