April 15, 2005
Oracle + SOAP = Cool Project
I just found a draft of the Oracle Calendar Web Services SOAP specification. After playing around with PHP5's SOAP functions, it appears that the calendar server on campus has the SOAP interface enabled. The possibilities are endless.
Currently, the only thing preventing me from using the university's calendaring system is the only way to import and export to and from the system is visually (at least without the Outlook connector). How I would love to visit a URL and get a real-time ICS file of my Oracle Calendar. What would be cooler is if there was a WEBDAV folder where I could publish ICS files and have them automatically imported into Oracle.
Once you design a robust SOAP interface with a web-application language (PHP, Perl, Python, etc), the rest falls into place. The WebEvent Calendar (which takes the lifespan of a small insect to view) could be replaced with a calendar actually driven from the Oracle calendar. If we ever get the LDAP populated with student group membership from the USG projects I am working on, we could easily have the USG calendar (soon to be deployed) interface with the Oracle calendar. Students could get personalized calendars containing events from all the groups to which they are a member. They would then have access to all the features of the Oracle calendar, such as meeting invitations and reminders, which has the potential of increasing student awareness and thus student involvement, which is something towards which the university always strives.
There is so much information redundancy on campus that it is cumbersome to find it all in a concise and organized manner. With the Oracle Colloboration Suite, the university has the infrastructre to provide a central source of organized information. All that is preventing us from taking it to the next level is ???.
In related news, I am still looking for employment for the summer, so if anyone from TIS is reading this and would like my services... ;-)
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I am still looking for employment for the summer, so if anyone from TIS is reading this and would like my services
We, in Middleware (which are the peeps who do the Web Services stuff), are looking for another student employee. Shoot me an email, and we can set something up.