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Contents 1 What kind of applications 2 Communication hyperlink principle 3 How to develop an application 4 Hybrid communication APIs 5 Mashup hosting 6 Forum Access

What kind of applications

You want to enrich your own web application with some communication facilities ? You want to develop your own application focused on your personal or business interests and take benefit of communication means developped by others ?

Then, you can build such an application as a mashup between your own business logic and the services offered by the Hybrid Communication plateform. This current http://www.communication-mashups.com site provides you all the information to do so.


In the current release the Hybrid Communication API gives you access to "Communication Hyperlinks" resources.

Communication hyperlink principle

A Communication Hyperlink is a new concept that allows you to be joined the way you want.
To experiment with the communication hyperlink concept you can join the http://www.dundal.com web site where you can create a free account and test the web communication services.

Communication Hyperlinks are built on the following principles:

• a communication hyperlink allows the "owner" of this hyperlink to be joined the way he wants,
  
• the "owner" of the communication hyperlink publishes his hyperlinks wherever he wants over the web: in blog pages, on web sites, on social networks pages, in any document available or exchanged over the web, ... With such communication hyperlinks, the personal details of the owner (phone numbers, email addresses, ...) are never visible to communication hyperlinks' "consumers".
  
• the owner of a communication hyperlink always keeps control over the published hyperlinks: he may create, invalidate, delete communication hyperlinks as he wants. Moreover he is able to change the communication modality associated to the communication hyperlink as he desires.
  
• the communication hyperlink consumer is able to join the owner of this hyperlink without any installation nor any account creation.
  
• Published hyperlinks may have different representations called "renderer". You can change this renderer whenever you want.
  
• The communication is based on your usage: when a consumer clicks a communication hyperlink, the owner is notified of the object of the call: the "notification message" corresponds to the description associated to the hyperlink.
  
• the modality of the communication associated to a communication hyperlink at a given time is named the "communication resource". You can see in Communication Enabler the different available resources.

To experiment with the communication hyperlink concept you can join the http://www.dundal.com web site that allows you to be a user of the web communication service associated to this concept.

How to develop an application

To develop a communication mashup application you will have to follow different steps:

• if not already known by you, take knowledge of the OAuth standard that is necessary to access to Hybrid Communication API: see OAuth overview page.
  
• get a development key for your application: see the Get API Key page.
  
• develop your application and interface it with the hybrid communication platform with the use of the Hybrid Communication API and OAuth standard: see the API Documentation page.
  

Note that to manage your application hybrid communication hyperlinks, the owner(s) of these communication hyperlinks will need to have an account on the http://www.dundal.com web site.

Hybrid communication APIs

Hybrid Communication APIs allows you to get access to services offered by Hybrid Communication plateform. In the current release this API allows you to access and manage communication hyperlinks. Developments for future additional services are in progress.
The documentation of Hybrid Communication API is available here API Documentation. In addition a tool allowing you to test the API is available here: API Testing Tool.

Mashup hosting

Several cloud computing services are available. You could host our application in our own web server or use existing solutions such as Amazon e2c or Google App Engine

• Example: Mashup on Google App Engine
  • PART I: Setup GAE for OAuth
  • PART II: Start your GAE application
  • PART III: Accessing user's data
  • PART IV:Setting Up OAuth to access third party services
  • PART V:Accessing HybridCom resources

Forum Access

If you want to share your experience about hybrid communication plateform usage, communication mashups development, etc.; do not hesitate to join the forum. It will allow you to enter in contact with the community of Hybrid communication's platform users.
The forum is available here: http://www.communication-mashups.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=15.