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Resource Model

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WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?

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Symmetric programming model Protocol based

Resource oriented

Simple infoset Entities

Collections

Relationships

Standards based

Unified model for all Live types

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ResourceModel

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Consists of resources and their relationships Resources

Uniquely addressable

Based on a simple infoset Can be rendered to various wire representations

Relationships Navigatable, can be inlined

Uniform access to all Windows Live resourcestypes Contacts, Profiles, News, Activities, Friends

MeshObjects (includes Files, Folders, Photos) Devices

Applications

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LiveOperatingEnvironment

NewsItems

Members

DataFeeds

DataEntries

Devices NewsMeshObjects

Contacts Profiles . . .Mesh

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SOME ITEMS IN THERESOURCE MODEL

But not all!

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LiveOperatingEnvironment

NewsItems

Members

DataFeeds

DataEntries

Devices NewsMeshObjects

Contacts Profiles . . .Mesh

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Top level container Contains

Contact Collection

Profiles

Mesh Possibly other Live data

Available online/ofine

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LiveOperatingEnvironment

NewsItems

Members

DataFeeds

DataEntries

Devices NewsMeshObjects

Contacts Profiles . . .Mesh

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Owned/Controlled by the user Contains all the information about

Devices

Data

Applications News aggregation

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LiveOperatingEnvironment

NewsItems

Members

DataFeeds

DataEntries

Devices NewsMeshObjects

Contacts Profiles . . .Mesh

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Top level resource container All contained resources are related

Unit of permission/distribution

Contains

DataFeeds

Mappings

Members

News

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LiveOperatingEnvironment

NewsItems

Members

DataFeeds

DataEntries

Devices NewsMeshObjects

Contacts Profiles . . .Mesh

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Unit of syncronization Container for

DataEntry

FeedSync

MediaResource Can contain other DataFeeds to create

hierarchy

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LiveOperatingEnvironment

NewsItems

Members

DataFeeds

DataEntries

Devices NewsMeshObjects

Contacts Profiles . . .Mesh

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Smallest unit of data Specifies the actual data being stored

Can contain enclosures of applicationdefined schema

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AUTHENTICATION

How do I identify myself?

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Authenticate as myself Use web authentication Web site has no access to my mesh

Authenticate as a user on my site Use delegated authentication User controls access to his mesh

Mesh enabled web sites authenticate same

as before

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Use either local or cloud mesh

Local mesh is already authenticated

Cloud Mesh

App must get username and password

Use those credentials to authenticate to

the cloud

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Local connection

Local data cache

Ofine capability required

Automatically syncs with the cloud

Cloud connection No local data cache

Ofine capability not needed Always online

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