Google Code
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 Google Code |
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| URL | code.google.com |
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| Type of site | Development website |
| Available language(s) | English |
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| Launched | March 17, 2005 |
| Current status | active |
Google Code is Google's site for developers interested in Google-related/open-source development. The site contains open source code and a list of their services which support public APIs.
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[edit] APIs
Google offers a variety of APIs for web and desktop programmers alike. They are often based around current Google products, including AdSense, Google Checkout and Google Toolbar.
[edit] SOAP-based APIs
The AdSense and AdWords APIs, based on the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) data exchange standard, allow developers to integrate their own applications with these Google services. The AdSense API allows owners of web sites and blogs to manage AdSense sign-up, content and reporting, while the AdWords API gives AdWords customers programmatic access to their AdWords accounts and campaigns.
[edit] Google Data APIs
The Google Data APIs allow programmers to create applications that read and write data from Google services. Currently, these include APIs for Google Apps, Blogger, Google Base, Google Book Search, Google Calendar, Google Code Search, Google Spreadsheets, Google Notebook, and Picasa Web Albums.
[edit] Open source projects
Google Projects [1] and Patches[2] are Open Source software that Google has developed.
[edit] Gears
Gears is beta software offered by Google to enable off-line access to services that normally only work on-line. It installs a database engine, based on SQLite, on the client system to cache the data locally. Gears-enabled pages use data from this local cache rather than from the online service. Using Gears, a web application may periodically synchronize the data in the local cache with the online service. If a network connection is not available, the synchronization is deferred until a network connection is established. Thus Gears enables web applications to work even though access to the network service is not present.
[edit] Google Web Toolkit
The Google Web Toolkit is an open source toolkit allowing developers to create Ajax applications in the Java programming language [3]. GWT supports rapid client/server development and debugging in any Java IDE. In a subsequent deployment step, the GWT compiler translates a working Java application into equivalent JavaScript that programmatically manipulates a web browser's HTML DOM using DHTML techniques. GWT emphasizes reusable, efficient solutions to recurring Ajax challenges, namely asynchronous remote procedure calls, history management, bookmarking, and cross-browser portability. It is released under the Apache License version 2.0.
[edit] Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code [4] is a mentoring program to find students for Open Source projects. In 2007, the program received nearly 6,200 applications.
[edit] Project Hosting
Google Code runs a project hosting service[5] that provides revision control using Subversion (the repositories are implemented on top of Google's BigTable, but this is hidden to the user), an issue tracker, a wiki for documentation, and a file download feature. The service is available and free for all Open Source projects that are licensed to Google's liking.
[edit] Allowed licenses
The site allows the projects to use only one of nine licenses (Apache, Artistic, BSD, GPLv2, GPLv3, LGPL, MIT, MPL and EPL).
[edit] Limitations
The site limits the number of projects one person can have to 10, as well as only a certain amount of projects may be created within 1 day.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Google Web Toolkit
- Google Code website
- Wikia Google Toolkit, a complete wiki about GWT
- A detailed list of the features of Google Code - Project Hosting
- GWT Tutorial GWT Tutorial and programming concepts for programmers new to GWT
- GWTsite.com: Learning about GWT
- Tracking News on GWT
- GWT Applications
- Rocket-gwt Lots of extras for GWT, clientside DI, comet, lots of widgets and more.
- GWTPHP PHP port for GWT Server (RPC)
[edit] References
- ^ Google Code - Projects
- ^ Google Code - Patches
- ^ Johnson, Bruce (2006-12-12). "GWT 1.3 Release Candidate is 100% Open Source". Retrieved on 2007-02-08.
- ^ Google Summer of Code
- ^ Google Code - Project Hosting
