Default 3rd Party Services

The VCE relates to two content types for dealing with 3rd party content: application-service and application. The former for defining the what 3rd party applications should be available to the users of the web site and the latter for the user when adding a particular service to his or her profile.

Have a look at the content-type definition inside the community-demo WAR (community-engine/wars/community-demo.war), file which comes with the VCE distribution to see how these two content types are defined.

If you use the VCE demo WAR, these two content types are already available to you and you will also get the following application services defined:

• The Flickr picture community, http://flickr.com/

• The Picasa online image gallery, http://picasaweb.com

• The Last FM music community, http://last.fm

• The Youtube online video sharing community, http://www.youtube.com

• The Twitter microblogging service, http://twitter.com

To add 3rd party application fetching to your own publication: First add the two content types to your definition and then create similar application service content items; either by manually following the steps described below in Content Studio, or by using the content XML available in the demo WAR file.