Specs

Below are the technical specifications for OpenSocial, gadgets, and the REST/RPC protocols. Check out the specification process used to evolve these specs.

OpenSocial .Next

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• Release Notes
• OpenSocial Specification
• Core Container Spec
• Core Gadget Spec
• Core API Server Spec
• Core Data Spec
• Social Gadget Spec
• Social API Server Spec
• Social Data spec
• OpenSocial Templating Spec
• OpenSocial WAP Extension
  View entire draft in Git

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OpenSocial 2.5.1

• Release Notes
• OpenSocial Specification
• Core Container Spec
• Core Gadget Spec
• Core API Server Spec
• Core Data Spec
• Social Gadget Spec
• Social API Server Spec
• Social Data spec
• OpenSocial Templating Spec
• OpenSocial WAP Extension
  View entire draft in Git

OpenSocial 2.5

• Release Notes
• OpenSocial Specification
• Core Container Spec
• Core Gadget Spec
• Core API Server Spec
• Core Data Spec
• Social Gadget Spec
• Social API Server Spec
• Social Data spec
• OpenSocial Templating Spec
• OpenSocial WAP Extension
  View entire draft in Git

OpenSocial 2.0.1

• Release Notes
• OpenSocial Specification
• Core Container Spec
• Core Gadget Spec
• Core API Server Spec
• Core Data Spec
• Social Gadget Spec
• Social API Server Spec
• Social Data spec
• OpenSocial Templating Spec
• OpenSocial WAP Extension
  View entire draft in Git

OpenSocial 2.0 

• Release Notes
• OpenSocial Specification
• Core Container Spec
• Core Gadget Spec
• Core API Server Spec
• Core Data Spec
• Social Gadget Spec
• Social API Server Spec
• Social Data spec
• OpenSocial Templating Spec
• OpenSocial WAP Extension

View entire draft in SVN

OpenSocial 1.1

• Release Notes
• OpenSocial Specification
• Core Gadget Spec
• Core API Server Spec
• Core Data Spec
• Social Gadget Spec
• Social API Server Spec
• Social Data spec
• OpenSocial Templating Spec
• OpenSocial WAP Extension

View entire draft in SVN

OpenSocial 1.0

• OpenSocial Specification
• Core Gadget Spec
• Core API Server Spec
• Core Data Spec
• Social Gadget Spec
• Social API Server Spec
• Social Data spec
• OpenSocial Templating Spec

View entire draft in svn

Archives

OpenSocial v0.9

• OpenSocial Specification
• Gadgets Specification
• OpenSocial Data Pipelining
• OpenSocial Markup Language Tags
• OpenSocial Templating
• REST Protocol
• RPC Protocol
• Release Notes

View entire spec in svn

Other resources

• Spec Process