Getting Started

Summary

The OSIDs (available from osid.org) are the service interface definitions. This wiki has information about the OSIDs and the Okapia open-source implementation.

Download

Getting Okapia jars from the maven repository.

Try An Example

Clone a sample application and OSID Provider:

% git clone git://git.assembla.com/osid-sample.git
% cd osid-sample
% make run

If you count nine planets, your OSID environment is working. Anything less then there was a serious problem.

net.okapia.osid.sample.Test illustrates the basics of consuming an OSID. 

• Starting up the OSID Runtime environment.
• Loading a Resource OSID Provider
• Getting some stuff from it.

The Resource OSID Provider is net.okapia.osid.sample.providers.resource.solarsystem. It demonstrates:

• An OsidManager.
• Setting up the identity of the service provider.
• Implementing a simple OsidSession.
• Implementing an OsidRecord attached to an OsidObject.

Source Navigation

Resource OSID Consumer

net.okapia.osid.sample.Planets is the sample application. It performs the following:

1. Starts up an OsidRuntimeManager via a Bootloader
2. Gets the net.okapia.osid.sample.providers.resource.solarsystem.ResourceManager Resource OSID Provider via the OsidRuntimeManager.
3. Gets a ResourceLookupSession via the ResourceManager.
4. Gets a stream of Resources via the ResourceLookupSession.
5. Iterates through the ResourceList and displays them.
6. Shuts down the Resource OSID Provider and OSID Runtime.

Resource OSID Provider