Sun announced today that source code is now available for Project SocialSite (under a CDDL/GPL license) and the project is now operating as an open source project within the umbrella Glassfish community:

“Project SocialSite is a set of Widgets and Web Services that you can use to add Social Networking features to your existing web sites and applications. It includes a Java web application that manages a comprehensive Social Graph repository and exposes that data via an OpenSocial-based REST API. SocialSite also includes a set of Widgets that can be used to create an end-to-end UI for Social Networking, including the ability to run OpenSocial Gadgets within the pages of your existing sites.”

Some Project SocialSite resources include:

Project SocialSite homepage on Java.net, with mailing lists and more:
https://socialsite.dev.java.net/

Screencast that illustrates the project concept:
https://socialsite.dev.java.net/screencasts/mediawiki_demo.html

Project blog with news and announcements:
http://blogs.sun.com/socialsite/

I’m looking forward to including some SocialSite-powered features on this blog in the near furture. Stay tuned.

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