Facebook App Development

So, preparing to my alphageeks lecture, I started building a demo facebook application. As always, I try to set the standard high - probably too high for my free time. So, mining facebook data is not interesting enough for me. Instead - I want to build a facebook applicaiton, that will be hosted on my page.

Not an easy task - let me tell you that.

1. I started by downloading Apache-Tomcat 6, hoping it will run my application.
2. Downloaded the Google Java Facebook API, and the web application that comes along with it. (See here)
3. Deployed the web-app in Tomcat.
4. Got tons of DB related problems - but I don't care.
5. Fixed params in the facebook.properties file (api_key, secret and callback)
6. Got a static IP.
7. Changed the facebook app call-back URL
8. Added my custom code to the web-app.
9. Voila - all works.