It's ready

JConnect - The Integration Engine for Joomla is now pretty much ready. (OK we say it BETA). Before we going into much details lets talk about it's features. It can do following with it's External Applications.. (Currently only Elgg)

• Dual-way communication..
    whatever the changes you made to a user(Create,Update,Delete) it'll affect to Both Joomla and ExApp. no mater where you made it (inside Joomla or Elgg)
• Bulk User Synchronization
    you can synchronize users in many numbers between Joomla and ExApp.
• Dual Login (Single Sign On)
   you can login into one site and go for a another site and do your work without login again. (a site may be Joomla or a ExApp)
• Activity Module
   you can see the activities in the ExApp inside Joomla in a Module..
• Sync User Management
   you can manage user sync users inside Joomla
• Admin Panel
   contains a easy to use admin Panel to control all of these
• Advanced Contols
   helps you to control the communication between Joomla and ExApps

Get It

Currently JConnect Only support Elgg as an External Application. So you can get,

•   JConnect Engine and,
•   Elgg plugin (makes elgg as an JConnect ExApp)

You can download above from here..
   http://code.google.com/p/jconnect/downloads

And documentation to Install And Configure JConnect with Elgg can be found here....
  code.google.com/p/jconnect/wiki/GettingStarted

Review It

I'll really apriciate comments and you review on this..

• Plese comments below this Article or http://code.google.com/p/jconnect/wiki/Comments
• If any kind of issue arise please kind enought to submit those in here.. code.google.com/p/jconnect/issues

What's next

• Dual Login does not works for cross domains yet.. I'm working on it..
• User group consideration when synchronization (which is not currently supportes)
• Developer support (JConnect ExApps can be easily created - but a good Documentation should come up)