Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment (ESME) is a secure and highly scalable microsharing and micromessaging platform that allows people to discover and meet one another and get controlled access to other sources of information, all in a business process context.
The ESME server is written in Scala and uses the Lift web framework to produce a browser-based user interface and also to expose a REST API. The ESME architecture has been devised to meet the business requirements associated with reliability and scalability. The use of the Scala programming language and the Lift web framework on the server provides rapid development capability as well as browser push functionality ("Comet") as standard. The open server side architecture allows other messaging environments - internal (Alerts, Enterprise Services, etc.) as well as public (Twitter, external web-services, etc.) - to be consumed as messaging sources. An event-driven actions framework within ESME allows users to filter their information flow as well as to forward ESME messages to other systems via HTTP or email.
If you look at the origins of the ESME project, you will find that the origin was in a plurk (a micro-blogging site like twitter) conversation that at some point moved to the SAP SDN wiki. The project then moved to Assembla and then Google Code
The team involved was originally primarily made of individuals associated with the SAP community but has since expanded to include others from outside that community. The global team includes members from a variety of different nations ranging from India, Spain, Norway, Bulgaria, UK, etc.
Present Features
- Adobe Air client
- Web client
- Extensive set of built-in actions
- Login via Open-ID
Planned Features
- Federation scenarios
- Groups
A few requested Features
- ERP notifictions
- Prioritization
- Show local time for users
ESME Core
There are three ways to access the source
- Web Access: The code repository can be browsed here
- Anonymous SVN: SVN URL for anonymous users is here Instructions for anonymous access are here .
- Committer SVN: SVN URL for committers is here Instructions for committer access are here
- Those that use the internal ESME JSON interface
- Web UI
- Those that use ESME's REST API
- PL/SQL
- Adobe Air
- VBA
- ABAP
- Java
- Those that use the Twitter API to access ESME
- Twhirl
Existing sites
There are a few sites that already have a working version of ESME
Installation & Deployment Guide for ESME
ESME Mailet Install Guide
How to install and run ESME on a Java servlet container
ESME Desktop Client Server Config
You are a developer
- You can check out the ESME source
- You can contribute patches to the ESME Core
- You can develop your own clients using ESME's own REST API or our Twitter API. Here are the instructions to create your client.
You are a potential user
- You can check out existing ESME installations
- You can install ESME in your own environment
esme-dev: This is the list where developers of the ESME project discuss code changes, milestone progress, schedules, etc.
esme-commits: This list is for those who wish to be notified whenever files are committed to the ESME SVN repository.
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- Rest API
- Actions
- Support of Twitter API
- FAQ
- Groups vs. Pools
- UI Discussion
- Integration patterns