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In today’s mobile and agile business environment, it is important to unlock the enterprise data held by applications and other systems, and enable its consumption from anywhere. The Open Data Protocol (OData), on its way to be standardized by Microsoft, IBM, SAP and a lot of other companies within OASIS (an international standards body for advancing open standards for the information society), provides a solution to simplify data sharing across applications in enterprises, in the Cloud, and on mobile devices. OData leverages proven Internet technologies such as REST, ATOM and JSON, and provides a uniform way to access data as well as data models.

SAP contributed the Java OData Library recently to Apache Olingo (Incubator). After just a few days available in public we got a lot of interest from other companies. That makes us confident to build up a community working on evolving this library to the latest version which is the upcoming OData Standard as result of the standardization process at OASIS.

Talking about features there is already a lot to be discovered in the library. Since the Entity Data Model, the URI Parsing including all System Query Options and (De)Serialization for ATOM/XML and JSON is already supported one can build an OData Services supporting advanced read / write scenarios. Features like $batch are currently added, Conditional Handling, advanced Client Support and detailed documentation are on the roadmap for the upcoming months.

The guiding principles during the implementation of the OData Library were to be OData 2.0 specification compliant and have an architecture in place to enhance the library in a compatible manner as much as possible. The clear separation between Core and API and keeping dependencies down to a minimum is important. The community should have the option to build extensions for various data sources on top of the library. The JPA Processor as one additional module provided is an excellent example for such an extension.

Besides the Core and API packages there is also an example provided in the ref and ref.web packages in order to show the features in an OData Service Implementation and to enable to integrate new features in that service also for full integration tests (fit).

 

We’ll keep you posted once the first release is available to digest. You can already dig into the coding, provide bug reports, feature requests and questions via Jira or by using the mailing list. All the information is available in the support section of the web site.

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