Daitan Group provides software product development services to leading global technology companies including Symphony and contributed significantly to the Symphony Integrations project, which is one of the top 3 most active projects hosted by the Symphony Software Foundation.
APIs have evolved significantly over the past two decades, shifting from SOAP/XML/WSDL to REST/JSON/Swagger. Now, we're starting to see the emergence of Open APIs (“open” in the sense of being public), especially in financial services. According to ProgrammableWeb, financial APIs are among the top API growth categories.
The extension API examples repository is a growing collection of examples of the Symphony extension api services. We created these services for developers to design and deploy their own applications with full Symphony integration and capabilities. With these services, you can create custom modules, share content, creatively and dynamically render messages with structured objects, and more.
I have been involved with the foundation since it’s early days when I attended the first London meetup. When I started the hubot-symphony project, I had an account on the public Symphony POD and that was it. Like many open source projects, I started with a selfish purpose, to facilitate moving existing chat bot tools used in my day job onto the Symphony platform as part of evaluating Symphony. Building software to interface with an API without access to the system itself was certainly a challenge for a modern software engineer and I am glad to say the route I took is consigned to history thanks to the Open Developer Platform (ODP) provided by the Foundation. I want to discuss my initial development approach and how that has evolved as the Foundation has matured.
At the Symphony Software Foundation we care a lot about IP Compliance of the software we host, which is why we:
