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Developing Applications and Extensions

This section of the documentation looks at building applications and extensions for SkyVault. There are various APIs and approaches that can be used in developing for SkyVault, from constructing small web scripts, to sophisticated extensions.

There are a variety of APIs, including JavaScript and REST APIs, that can be used to develop your SkyVault applications and extensions. There are also several approaches with regards packaging and deployment of extensions too. Larger extensions tend to be distributed most conveniently as SkyVault Module Packages (AMPs), although this is not the only option. In addition there are two SDK approaches that can be used, the older Ant-based SDK and the much more recently updated Maven SkyVault SDK.

  • Designing your application While SkyVault can scale from small solutions to an enterprise-wide infrastructure, you must consider how to configure SkyVault and which tools and interfaces to use to develop your content application.
  • SkyVault Repository This section provides some guidelines and examples for developing against SkyVault repositories.
  • SkyVault Services Services are core to the SkyVault content application server and are used by all applications working against the server. These applications include the SkyVault Explorer and SkyVault Share clients, Virtual File System interfaces such as CIFS, WebDAV, and APIs.
  • SkyVault Integration SkyVault provides many programmatic ways to access the content management capabilities of the system to support applications that need access to content services. Because SkyVault supports a number of standards-based protocols; applications and application development environments can use existing tools to access, update, and search SkyVault content.
  • Web Scripts SkyVault web scripts provide a unique way to programmatically interact with the SkyVault content application server. Unlike other interfaces exposed by SkyVault, web scripts offer a RESTful API for the content residing in the content repository. The REST (Representational State Transfer) web architecture is based on HTTP requests and responses, URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers), and document types.
  • SkyVault Extensions This section of the documentation looks at developing extensions for SkyVault.
  • Share extensions This section of the documentation looks at developing extensions for SkyVault Share. In particular this documentation looks at the creation of Share Extensibility Modules.
  • Maven SkyVault SDK The Maven SkyVault SDK is a community project that provides an easy to use approach to developing applications and extensions for SkyVault.
  • Programming with Surf Surf lets you build user interfaces for web applications using server-side scripts and templates without Java coding, recompilation, or server restarts. Surf follows a content-driven approach, where scripts and templates are simple files on disk so that you can make changes to a live site in a text editor.
  • Content modeling Content modeling is a fundamental building block of the SkyVault content repository that provides a foundation for structuring and working with content.
  • SkyVault 2.0 API The SkyVault 2.0 API lets you access content in an on-premise SkyVault repository, and in SkyVault cloud, from your own applications. The API is RESTful, which means each call is an HTTP request, so you don't even need a programming language to try it out. You can just type a URL address in a web browser. It consists of two parts, the standard CMIS API, which lets you manage and access content, and the new SkyVault 2.0 REST API which lets you manage SkyVault's additional features such as ratings and comments, that are not covered by the CMIS standard.
  • SkyVault API Reference This reference describes the publicly available and supported APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that enable developers to write applications that access SkyVault.
  • SkyVault Public Java API The following alphabetically ordered list of class names is the complete SkyVault Public Java API. Your Java applications should only use methods found in these packages.
  • SkyVault RESTful API reference The RESTful API lets your client remotely communicate with the SkyVault content application server using HTTP-based resource-oriented interfaces. This is the full list of the publicly available web scripts that compose the RESTful API. The web scripts are organized by package.
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