Social Networking framework for Java

Question

Social Networking

I think Java have Apache Shindig as a social networking framework (hi5). Oh my, their documentation is close to nothing. I was wondering what other good Java framework for social networking that people have used (please, if u give me a list of 40 different frameworks, it would just confused me a lot more). Good meaning that it contains lot of documentation, code samples and light weight. Thank you

NOTE
There is an identical post on this subject on here, however the post are from 2008, and I feel like technology has been evolving so much, so new post :D .... (Plus it recommend Shindig which I find almost no documentation to get started)

Answer 1

Yes there are lot of frameworks

http://www.vivalogo.com/vl-resources/open-source-social-networking-software.htm

http://www.elgg.org/

http://best-php-scripts.com/social_networking.htm

Answer 2

Shindig is not actually a Social Networking end-to-end framework, it's the reference implementation for OpenSocial, which is a spec defining a platform for running applications inside social networking sites.

So Shindig would be more like a gadget container with an API for exposing social data, I think you'll want more than that to build a social networking site from scratch.

You can take a look at SocialSite, a java framework for building end-to-end social networking sites. I haven't used it, but I know it uses a Shindig container for hosting OpenSocial apps.