Assemble the Social Web with Zembly

Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Chapter 1: What Is zembly? 1 1.1 Social Programming 2 1.2 zembly's Environment 4 1.3 zembly's Audience 6 1.4 Publishing and Scaling with zembly 7 1.5 Monetizing with zembly 8 1.6 Coming to zembly Soon 8 Chapter 2: zembly Basics 11 What You Will Learn 12 Examples in This Chapter 12 2.1 Exploring the Samples 13 2.2 About You--Your Home Page 20 2.3 Your Keychain and Service Providers 24 2.4 Creating Your First Service: LoanPaymentService 25 2.5 Creating Your First Widget: LoanPaymentWidget 34 2.6 Drafts, Versions, and Timelines 42 2.7 Putting It All Together--Using the WeatherBug API 45 Chapter 3: Building Flickr Widgets 55 What You Will Learn 55 Examples in This Chapter 56 3.1 Using Flickr 56 3.2 Building a Slide Show Widget 57 3.3 Building a Service for Your Flickr Photos 67 3.4 Creating a Flickr User Slide Show Widget 71 Chapter 4: Building Zillow Widgets 79 What You Will Learn 79 Examples in This Chapter 80 4.1 Using Zillow 80 4.2 Building a Zillow Service 82 4.3 Building a Zillow Widget 88 4.4 Building a Google Maps Mashup 92 Chapter 5: Facebook Basics 101 What You Will Learn 101 Examples in This Chapter 102 The New Facebook Design 102 5.1 About Facebook 103 5.2 Creating a Facebook Application 114 5.3 Loan Calculator--Your First Facebook Application 121 5.4 zembly and Facebook--A Closer Look 130 5.5 BuddyPics--Using FBML and FBJS 137 Chapter 6: Facebook Integration 161 What You Will Learn 162 Examples in This Chapter 162 6.1 Capital Punishment--A Challenging Facebook Application 162 6.2 Using the Facebook Data Store and FQL 191 6.3 Mood Pix--Leveraging Facebook Integration 208 6.4 Facebook Connect--Looking Forward 231 Chapter 7: Working with Dapper 237 What You Will Learn 237 Examples in This Chapter 238 7.1 Getting Content with Dapper 238 7.2 Photo Search Widget 239 7.3 London Tube Widget 248 7.4 MLB Scores Widget 258 7.5 Creating a Feed Reader 265 Chapter 8: Widget Gallery 273 What You Will Learn 273 Examples in This Chapter 274

Gail Anderson is a software specialist and author who has written numerous books on leading-edge technology. Paul Anderson is a founding member of the Anderson Software Group, Inc., a leading provider of programming and software development training courses. The Andersons' previous books include Java Studio Creator Field Guide (Sun Microsystems Press, 2006) and Enterprise JavaBeans Component Architecture (Prentice Hall, 2002). Todd Fast is the architect and CTO of zembly. Previously, he was Chief Architect for Enterprise Java tools at Sun Microsystems, and a lead architect for the NetBeans IDE focusing on SOA, web services, and XML. Chris Webster is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems and Technical Lead for zembly. He is a co-author of NetBeansa IDE Field Guide Second Edition (Prentice Hall, 2006).