[Fiware-tech-help] I Am Lost

[MIGUEL CARRILLO PACHECO]

Dear Mr Claren,

FIWARE is providing the so called Generic Enablers. Generic (as opposed to “Specific”) means that they can be applied to no matter what industry, they are general purpose artefacts. You need to see what’s in the catalogue and use those that are useful for you in whatever scenario you have.

The best approach is to go to the catalogue (http://catalogue.fiware.org/enablers) and see our current offer. The catalogue concentrates the information of all the available GEs with all the pointers to the manuals, open specs, terms of use, etc.

The definition of the Open Specs and the Manuals associated to each one of the is on the wiki (http://wiki.fiware.org/).  The wiki is complex and a bit difficult to navigate at first since it has loads of information. The pages you may need to look for when looking for details are here:

  *    FIWARE Architecture<http://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/FI-WARE_Architecture> -> list of technical chapters -> Architecture of Individual GEs in each chapter
  *   Summary of FIWARE Open Specifications<http://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/Summary_of_FI-WARE_Open_Specifications> > Open specs summary of Individual GEs in each chapter
  *   Summary of FIWARE API Open Specifications<http://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/Summary_of_FI-WARE_API_Open_Specifications> -> Open specs APIs of Individual GEs in each chapter
  *   Materializing the FIWARE Vision<http://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/Materializing_the_FI-WARE_Vision> -> list of technical chapters -> Information of Individual GEs in each chapter (including manuals)
However, these pages also include GEs that are no longer maintained by FIWARE. The safest approach is to go to the catalogue and the catalogue will (hopefully) give you the direct links to the wiki pages that are related to the GE with no need to click though wiki links.  The catalogue has the pointers to all the GEs.  The GEs have open specs and associated APIs. In practical terms, you decide to create you application and identify GE implementations that provide functionality that is useful for your app. Your app will talk to the GE implementation via a REST interface.
May I point out that we have a free experimentation environment called FIWARE Lab (https://lab.fiware.org/) where we are progressively making available our GEs with self-deployment facilities. We also have online eLearning courses (http://edu.fiware.org/)
Now, we are finding people like you feeling a bit lost and we decided to do something about it. This is why we have this on our home page (http://www.fiware.org/):
[cid:part9.03050709.07020803 at telefonica.com]
If you  click on "FIWARE Developers" you get to http://www.fiware.org/developers-entrepreneurs/. There yoiu have a rough explanation of all this I am telling you now plus a few highlights (high level profile GEs)  and a few usage examples.
I hope that it helps

Miguel
El 27/03/2015 a las 15:35, Philip Claren escribió:

Dear Sir or Madam,

I’m working on a software project when a friend of mine told me about FI-WARE. It sounded very interesting from a technical and business point of view. I looked into FI-WARE and I have to say I am lost.

I’m the CTO and leading developer of software company and I was not able to figure out how this whole thing works. Maybe this is not a good sign for this whole operation to catch a wide range of developers. But beside this maybe you can help me.

Like I said, I am working on a software project which utilizes Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Redis and node.js as key technologies. How does this rather common setup fit in in the whole FI-WARE universe? I found tons of texts describing the philosophical direction of the whole project and this is fine, but what about real-world, concrete, actual software? Where is the "Hello World" of FI-WARE?

I very much like what FI-WARE tries to achieve and I also would like to contribute to the whole ecosystem to make it easier for people like me to get a grasp of the whole concept. But first maybe you can help me out with this rather profound problem of understanding how a FI-WARE App looks like in the real world.

I looking forward to hearing from you and best regards,
Philip Claren

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